Wearing black at the Golden Globes: What we'll miss

Let's start with this: The unity of women who've vowed to wear black to Sunday's Golden Globe Awards is a good thing. Their powerful statement of solidarity with victims of sexual harassment and assault is welcome and long overdue. Here's hoping it will be part of real change, both in Hollywood and elsewhere.

That being said, there'll be more than a few tears shed by fashion watchers at the loss of a cottage industry -- who's wearing it well, and who's not. With almost everyone wearing black, there's sure to be a lot less individual flair in evidence.

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No disrespect to the acting talents of the women who attend the Globes; it's a tough business and the odds for success are extremely long. But whether they've left the house in frocks they may soon come to regret has long been one of Hollywood's most entertaining mysteries, as in: "What was she thinking?"

It takes a village, of course; virtually no woman attends an event like the Globes without a small army of publicists and stylists arranging everything from jewelry to hair to which of several choices of designer gowns to wear.

And in further sympathy with these unfortunates, there is a strong and perfectly understandable desire on the part of some to break with conformity. They grow tired of satin and tulle, Dior and Rodarte. It is within this desire that some go off the rails completely.

So journey back with us now and take another look at some Golden Globes miscues from the past. Hopefully, you won't miss being gleefully horrified at the choices made this year.