Beyoncé's Ultra Revealing BET Minidress - Hot or Not?
Filed under: Red Carpet Trends
Beyonce looking fierce at the BET Awards. Photo: Jason LaVeris, FilmMagic
The sequin- and crystal-adorned number featured a smattering of purple flowers and Balmain's trademark Eighties-style shoulder pads.
The dress -- or shall we say shirt -- also featured a provocative jagged hemline that we thought Beyoncé wore with enviable ease. She completed her look with purple Dior T-strap sandals with beaded heels.
Inside the Auditorium, Beyoncé performed Sarah Mclachlan's "Angel" and "Ave Maria," where the songstress again rocked Balmain, this time it was one of the label's long white jackets, over a bodysuit for a wedding-inspired number.
Have shortened hemlines gone too far? Or in the case of Beyoncé, who looked undeniably hot, is the thigh the limit?
For other questionable celebrity style choices, see below.
Snap Judgment
THIGH, HI! Beyoncé strikes a pose on the red carpet at the BET Awards in a multi-colored Balmain minidress. The evening's Best Female R&B Artist completed her sequin look with purple T-strap pumps and oversized turquoise hoop earrings.
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Congrats to mommy Carnie Wilson, who gave birth a week ago to her second child, Luciana Bella. Instead of sporting the traditional Juicy Couture sweats, the singer opted for a chic leopard-print muumuu for her follow-up doctor's appointment in Beverly Hills.
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Pucci Mama! Fergie vogues in a green and silver sequin Pucci dress with cutouts outside of the "Late Show with David Letterman" in New York City on June 9.
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Victoria Beckham arrived at Los Angeles' LAX airport on June 7 wearing a black tuxedo jacket, cutoff denim shorts and her trusty black Hermes Birkin bag. Are you feeling Posh's leggy look?
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Actress Emma Watson has certainly grown up! The cutie Brit attended a party in in L.A. for Rodarte designers Kate and Laura Mulleavy, wearing one of their impressive frocks. What do you think of the 19-year-old's look?
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Just Call Her Slash Over the weekend, Lady GaGa arrived at Japan's Narita International Airport in a rocking bold-shoulder blazer, cutout leggings, and pointy toe pumps. Are you gaga for GaGa?
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FLASH ATTACK
Czech model-actress Eva Herzigova left very little to the imagination when she hit the red carpet at the Cannes Film Festival in this nude sequin Atelier Versace gown. Is Eva's look bold or too bare?
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Anne Hathaway slithered into the Village Voice's Obie Awards wearing this scaly green number with cut-out shoulders.
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Drew Barrymore steps out in Hollywood looking like an 80s movie extra in a sheer white T-shirt and matching tie-dye bra and leggings. She completed her look with white-rimmed sunglasses, a finger-less glove, and leather sandals. Are you feeling Drew's fashion flashback?
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Hilary Swank wore this metallic grey gown with its rising hemline to Cannes Film Festival.
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It's all about purple this season, and I am a little bit at a loss because, well, purple is fairly aggressive color for someone like me whose entire wardrobe is varying shades of neutrals.
There are a few things in fashion that perplex me -- the immortality of Uggs, flat shoes, trashbags as purses -- and of course, the sleeveless turtleneck. A turtleneck is a cold-weather feature, meant to keep your neck warm, and yet if you're wearing it for cold weather, why would you go sleeveless?!?! Really, I never understood that.
This past Friday, your Styledash team hit up the GenArt Fresh Faces in Fashion event in Los Angeles, which we'll be writing about in more detail later. We were introduced to a few relatively new names in fashion, and one of them is 
Maybe it's the weather. Maybe it's the stress at work. Whatever it is, I am all about dressing comfortably these days. However, dressing comfortably doesn't mean I want to show up at the office in flip-flops, sweatpants, and a hoodie.
Perhaps it's a little late in the season to be looking at short-sleeved minidresses with fairly high hemlines, but it's definitely not late at all to shop sales.
Who says you can't wear white after Labor Day, especially if it's black and white?
Karma.
Is it just me or dis it feel like a sauna on the equator of Hell yesterday? Yes, it was hot, humid, and I was cranky as you-don't-want-to-know.
I will almost always tell you, no matter how stick skinny you might be, to never ever never never wear horizontal stripes, particularly wide stripes. 
I am tempted to slip into a sunny little sundress today. February. Just past Valentine's Day, and it felt like...summer?Y esterday, I kid you not, it was probably 90 degrees in LA, and it is looking like it will be the same today. 
