I thought that, after Brendan and Lisa's show dance last year, nothing on Strictly would ever cause me as much visual distress again. I was wrong.

Erin's Tango dress: WHAT WERE THEY THINKING?

Can you imagine the costume department meeting?

"Now let's see, Tango needs strong, intense colours. How about purple?"
"Yes, that sounds good. How about some red accents?
"Unusual colour combo, but would work in a tango."
"Fringing?"
"On a tango dress?"
"Yeah, we have a truck load that we bought for Laila and with her injury we're worried she might pull out and we'll have it left over."
"Oh, ok. Now, how are we going to shape this?"
"How about we ask an Afghan Hound to get into a washing machine with an Edwardian and Calamity Jane, and chuck in some Dylon?"
"That could work."

Generally this season the dresses have been more hits than misses but this was by far the worst. Even trumped poor Jade's cat-has-eaten-a-roll-of-tin-foil-and-regurgitated-it-onto-a-griddle-pan samba dress.

I agree. If I had been Erin I would have flatly refused to wear it. She looked like one of the ugly sisters, just needed a big wig and a mole and bobs your uncle.
AWFUL.

That dress did her no favours tonight. Awful colour and style.

One of the worst dresses in strictly history and thats saying something........someone has bought a job lot of fringing this year.......we have had it everywhere and now on arms .

Ha what a great description

I think in previous series,Erin used a different company for her dresses,don't know if thats still the case.

It was a bit gaudy.

Breasticles like stuck on oranges too.

It was Muppestastic! Each arm looked liked a purple Snuffleupagus! I mean, I love Snuffleupagus but I wouldn't wear him.

They seem to be getting more and more daring with the fringing, a little plea to the Costume Dept. - Please Stop.

I noticed this too.

She looked like a purple gorilla

I love Erin to bits and felt sorry for her having to wear THAT ! The colour, the style, the whole thing...ew.
Hair was awful too. Just a really really bad night over all for her and Ricky. Such a shame, it should have been their best night.

I made my friend spill her wine by remarking that Erin looked like she'd had a fight with Rod Hull and Emu.

And lost!

It was an orang-utan crossed with a great grape ape

The hair-do didn't help either! It looked like a lot of worm casts!

BBC Wardrobe Department really goofed up tonight. Erin's Tango Dress was not a good look and as for Natalie Cassidy's Dress - well it did her no favours at all - in fact it was a very bad look, a very bad look indeed.

I actually liked the colour

It just needed to loose the oranges over her boobs and the Yeti covering most of it

On it's own, the colour would have been fine. It was the rest of the mangling!

I actually didn't notice any of Ricky's mistakes first time around because the combination of dress, too loud music and over enthusiastic lighting distracted me from actually watching the dance.

Ward Robe Dolls have had a huge taste bypass this year. I can't believe the walking fashion/dance/shape disasters they have put together for some of those 'stars'.

Are they on something? I think we should be told.

Erin? Muppet crossed by Monsters Inc on acid.

I don't like the floaty dresses with the ruffled hemlines, I think they're so old-fashioned looking. And agree about the hairstyles, Erin's are a bit grannyish. Laila's waltz dress tonight was a copy of Rachel's last year, and Ola's Paso dress last week was terrible- a mixture of blue net, satin and a black leatherette belt with eyelets!

I think the time and money went on Ali's dress tonight, the rest were either forgettable or hideous.

When Erin came on I thought the style was Yheti.
They made a lovely girl look so bad. I'm glad they don't have to dress me. I'm bad enough without them.

Looked like someone draped a wooly mammoth on poor Erin Boag. I love her as a pro, but the dress department weren't doing her any favours tonight.

Ali on the other hand, was simply beautiful.

Why can't they keep to the same standards for every dancer?

This has been the only time I have gasped out loud "No!!" when seeing a female dancer stand at the top of those stairs at the beginning.

The most awful dress yet. The fringing, the high neck/keyhole flesh combo and the colours plus the bejwelled circles around the boobs.

How can you make a slim, attractive woman look horrendous ... quite easy .... get her on SCD. If Erin is using her own dresses she needs a rest and if she isn't she needs to assert herself more and just say NO.

Erin really doesn't strike me as the type of person to wear something if she hates it and I think they do have input into what they wear.

I couldn't believe how bad the dress was. The colour would have been fine but the design and the fringing!!