Every week, It Takes Two shows drawings of beautiful costumes. Every Saturday night, they prove to be a big disappointment. This week, even the best dresses were a bit too cutesy - Michelle and Aliona.
As for Katya's - the dark panel at the front looked like a merkin - just hideous!

What's a merkin??

I liked Flavia's trouser 'n' scarf combo!

I loved Kara's dress tonight. The rest were either hideous or blah.

yes whats a merkin !!!!

I didnt like Flavias trousers at all.......

Patsy had yellow knickers on under her gold coloured dress !!!!

I thought Flavia's outfit was great too! As for a merkin I got no idea

A merkin is a pubic wig

Eeeuwwww!!!!

Yesss, Flavia looked great!
And 'merkin' is now my favourite word: don't be such a merkin, dahhhrling!

I love it

Ann's was gorgeous

Kara, Pamela and Patsy, loved them all.

I really disliked Flavia's.

I loved the costumes tonight - Michelle said she wanted to look like Belle in Beauty and the Beast and, yes, that was a very Disney Princess dress. It flowed beautifully and made her waltz look better than it really was, IMO. Loved the hankie that Natalie was almost wearing, and Flavia's 1930s jazzy number. Kara's dress was a knock-out and, as much as I laughed with Patsy saying she looked like a sequinned sausage, she looked terrific, I thought. Bruno was spot on saying that Pamela looked like Jayne Mansfield - the loopy things over her boobs were a great 1950s touch. Felicity's dress was lovely - somehow making her look like a classy trollop. Brilliant work. The only one I didn't care for particularly was Aliona's, but mostly because the colour jarred with her hair - or was that the obligatory poppy that jarred?

I applaud the wardrobe department for the tremendous work they do in making Ann look less like a sack of potatoes than normal and I can't say I noticed Katya's merkin!*


*Off topic, but I once wrote to the editor of a legal newsletter to suggest they might care to use a different title for an article that explained the differences between English legal terms and American legal terms. I know they were trying to be amusing by writing 'American' phonetically, but I pointed them in the direction of a dictionary. They'd entitled it: 'How to talk Merkin'...

My favourites tonight were the dresses worn by Felicity and Pamela - wouldn't mind either for myself.

I thought some of the dresses tonight were great - much more modern than some of the dreadful concoctions the show frequently uses!

I loved Kara's salsa dress, Patsy's cha cha dress, Natalie's rumba dress. Michelle's dress was a little OTT, but suited the 'disney princess' look she once said she wanted(!). Pam's dress was ok, but rather old-fashioned.

Thought Katya's cha cha dress looked cheap & nasty (though I got the rugby theme), didn't like Felicity's paso (so-called!!) dress.

However, the worst of the lot has to be whatever it was Tess was wearing!!

OMG (as Craig would say) yes! I thought at the time that the Quality Street dress designers had come back - remember that gold effort from a couple of series back that made her look like a big toffee? Last week she was a hazelnut and this week a vanilla fudge.

LOL now I realise what it reminded me of! (And I hate Quality Street - horrid sickly things!!)

Felicityand Pamela were dressed spectacularly. Fantastic frocks.
Katya, Natalie and Flavia can only have been dressed by a tone deaf, blind mysonynist with two left feet.

The only costume I couldn't believe the costume dept would allow out tonight was Natalie's. It was like something done by a trainee who didn't know how to join the pieces together, appalling.

Did anyone else notice that Matt's suit was the same one as James wore on the first episode? And the hooded waistcoat that Artem wore on the first week was worn by Gavin tonight.

Seeing as they put so much effort into the dresses, I'm quite suprised that they will simply swap the male costumes around without any alterations.

It's odd, the companies that make these costumes are some of the best in the world and make dance costumes for top dancers. Usually those ones are stunning, move well, and are flattering on the body of the dancer (though dancers' bodies have really nothing to hide!). I don't understand why the costume department fails so miserably on SCD.

Ah, now I get what the problem with SCD costumes is: The determination of costume designers for them to be "fashion forward". Unfortunately dance fashion does not move in the same direction as normal fashion does. But the show wants to "keep with the times".

For example shoulder fringes have no place on a dance costume!

The purpose of a dance dress is to accent the good movements/lines and hide any flaws. On SCD the purpose of a dance dress seems to be for it to tick all the "fashionable" boxes.

I'm starting to think that the dress designers are SCD employees, instead of Chrisanne/DSI employees, and have very little idea about what is constitute a good design for a dance dress.

have you got one...

Hasn't everyone?? for those...........special occasions
I bet Bruce has

Natalie's "dress" may have worked in a different colour and material. The design reminded me of Ola's Rumba dress from last year, but the white chiffon made it tatty-looking.

Katya's costume was just hideous, but I wasnt watching her by the time the dancing started. And the men were of the opposite opinion to me, so everyone was happy

Pamela finally had a good frock after some stonkers, but black seemed far too sombre.

Whats is going on with the dresses/costumes this year.. It really looks like there has been a massive budget cut. Every week it seems they get more and more cheap and nasty, plus all this horrible theming doesnt help.

Michelles pink/gold Disney-esque monstrosity last week, looked like it had come out of a fancy dress shop (grown up Princess) and was 100% polyester.

They have a theme every year (don't they?).. in which case I'm thinking the theme this year is 'bargain bucket'.