The Grammys Banning Side-Boob Is An Overstep-- CBS' Wardrobe Advisory

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The Grammys and CBS have issued a ‘Wardrobe Advisory’ banning clothing that exposes sideboob, among other things, at the Feb. 10 telecast, as our sister site Deadline.com revealed! I think this is absurd and unnecessary. Isn’t the Grammys all about artistic expression?

Have the people in charge of The Grammys (airing on CBS on Feb. 10) lost their minds? As revealed by our sister site, Deadline.com, on Feb. 6, an e-mail from CBS Standards and Practices was sent to all presenters and performers at the upcoming telecast, advising them to “adhere to Network policy concerning wardrobe” — a policy that goes so far, it even bans sideboob Should all the ladies arrive in potato sacks?

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This advisory is sexist. Not only is the policy a serious overreach that unfairly targets women’s fashion, it’s written in the most strangely clinical terminology. “Please be sure that buttocks and female breasts are adequately covered. Thong type costumes are problematic. Please avoid exposing bare fleshy under curves of the buttocks and buttock crack. Bare sides or under curvature of the breasts is also problematic,” the e-mail reads.

But it doesn’t stop there! “Please avoid sheer see-through clothing that could possibly expose female breast nipples. Please be sure the genital region is adequately covered so that there is no visible “puffy” bare skin exposure,” it continues. I don’t even want to begin to contemplate what “visible ‘puffy’ bare skin exposure” is.

Grammys Wardrobe Advisory Has Gone Too Far

Come on– this is ridiculous! The Grammys are supposed to be a fun, anything-goes awards show! You do realize your honorees are Rihanna and Katy Perry and not Dames Judi Dench and Maggie Smith, right?

Would you tell Lady Gaga that she can’t arrive in her egg? Must everyone walk the red carpet in priestly garb? Would you prevent men from wearing anything provocative? Why must the fashion choices for the fabulous ladies being honored at the event be so limited? It’s time you rethink this prehistoric wardrobe advisory.

Do you agree that the banning of side-boob at The Grammys is going too far, HollywoodLifers?

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– Chloe Melas

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I think that this rule is try to stop them from wearing what they want when they start this all the music show will start to suck

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The woman who write this article and calls showing sideboob an artistic expression is clearly stupib. Eww Americans will call anything sexist. Women can’t respect themselves. Beyoncé dresses like a postitute and the President of America says she is a good role model. What a shame.

I couldn’t agree more with CBS’s email.
Some of these celebs need to learn the difference between artistic expression and prostitution.

If showing your tits and vagina is a form of artistic expression, then prostitutes are the greatest artists the world has ever known

I couldn’t agree more with CBS’s email. They’re arent telling women to dress in a burlap sack….they’re simply asking women dont show their nipples, vaginas, or butt cracks… If you think that’s too much to ask for, you’re seriously disturbed. There are so many beautiful dresses out there that don’t show that.

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@ Chloe Melas: I do believe it is called ” Modesty.”
Some of these celebs need to learn it, perhaps ?? Flashing sideboob is very immodest and as a nation, we should not tolerate a woman flashing so much flesh in public, or televised, where very young people can see it. Do u not remember Janet Jackson’s “wardrobe malfunction” ?

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Ok people we have been so exposed to nudity that people see.it so normal because there are lustful men that like to see all of this going.on when jenn wore the green dress it was a shock nowadays if she would wear something like that it woukd be completely normal. Women are degrading themselves more and more everyday that u no longer have to buy a mens magazine to feast your eyes because now nothing is.left to the imagination. I believe they want to go back to principles itsan award show suit and tie not the club!!!

I THINK THAT JUST CRAZY AND WRONG CAUSE I LOVE SEE ALL OF THOSE DIFFERENT DISGENER OUTFIT IN ESPECIALLY THE ONE JLO WORE WHEN SHE WAS WITH SEAN PUFFY COMBS I LOVED AND I WISH I COULD’VE WORE IT AND PULL IT OFF MYSELF BETTER YET THAT WHAT I BE WATCHING THE GRAMMYS FOR AND THE MUSIC. SIGN:KARROYLN SIMMONS

I can understand that they want everyone covered up and to prevent any wardrobe malfunctions, this is a family network and they don’t want anything provocative. However, my issue is that it doesn’t state anything about men wearing their pants below their butts. If we’re covering side boobs can they also cover their underwear that no one needs to see?

“Prudishness” is back with americans?
UNFORTUNATELY WE’RE USED TO IT!!

its not that bad… they just don’t want people showing up wearing bras and stuff…. its not dress like a nun, its just saying: be tasteful

Bannning outfits that show side-breats is just plain crazy! CBS’s latest move only makes them look old-school and out-of-touch with the mainstream.

This is completely sexist and degrading towards women. How someone dresses is none of their business, it’s freedom of symbolic speech. I didn’t see anything in there that prohibits men from anything. Aiming this to only women is like going back to before women’s suffrage. I don’t care if you call me a feminist, I’m only speaking the truth

I don’t think it degrades women in any way, but it does make CBS look like a bunch a of uptight, starit-laced prudes.

I am glad that CBS ins imposing standards and practices for television. These shows are viewed by millions for the talent of the artists not to see private body parts exposed. If the artist does not have the wisdom, intelligence and maturity to know what is appropriate dress then yes their superiors will point it out to them. Performers need to know they are no different from anyone else, rules and dress codes apply to them as well as to the gerneral population. Dress provocativly on your own time. Nothing says like like an elegently dressed man or woman.