Starlet Fashaps

We've just invented a word - fashaps! A combination between fashion and mishaps, and voila...something is born! Much like the cast in this post - though what was born in their case, is a new definition of 'what not to wear in public'. Meet TVB's next generation of starlets.


Tavia Yeung, on the left, is one of my personal favourites amongst TVBs 'new blood'. She's actually gone through acting school, instead of taking the easy way out and entering beauty contests like Miss Hong Kong, and it shows in her series. She has, however, managed to fall into the potato sack trap, that claimed the likes of Yoyo Mung this year.

Focus on the bottom of the dress for a moment (i know for some of you, that might be hard to do). Now tell me that she doesn't look like a giant christmas tree with stockings hanging out of it. It's almost as though Tavia was gripped with this uncanny fear of Santa missing out on her stocking if she ever went far from home (although we're a month and a half away from Christmas), so she decided to bring it along with her. If Santa does come, I hope he buys her a new dress.


I know some of you are thinking that Shermon Tang doesn't deserve to be fashapsed for this ensemble. Sure, it looks a bit tacky, with the red accessories and $5 tank top feeling. But it's black, and you can't go wrong in black right? To those of you who're thinking that, I'd like you to focus on the bottom of her ensemble. Yes, the skirt/shorts. Now look closer. I can hear what you're thinking now. Are they..baubles? sequins? wait...no...they shine...are they...at this point, I have to admit that I haven't a clue in hades what they are. Sure, I can almost hear the collective groan of cheap plastic accessories that I had a collection of when I was, like, 7, but surely she couldn't have worn a skirt made of...those? Not to a TVB anniversary, where everyone can gauge how influential you are in the station?

Le Sigh. I wish someone would remind her that she did enter showbiz by taking part in a beauty contest. And that if she isn't exactly one of the prettiest TVB starlets, at least she could dress right. The things you get away with when your father has some influence in the powers that be in TVB...

Natalie Tong, second from the left, is:

(a) attempting to send a statement to TVB that she is getting such small roles in series that she cannot afford a proper dress

(b) stealing from her grandmother's wardrobe

(c) using the leftover materials from a self-designed velvet and lace curtain

Oh, the complexities of celebrities wardrobes.

© peggy jean