10 Fabulous Fall Bow Blouses

Halogen Long Sleeve Tie Neck Top

Slouchy yet fitted, this knit V-neck has snappy button details on the cuffs, and the sleek shape makes it perfect for wearing with skirts or with a smart sweater vest. ($58, Nordstrom)

You don’t actually have to sit in the steno pool to look fabulously ladylike in one of this season’s hottest trends. Paired with a pencil skirt, the bow blouse (also called the tie-front blouse or the secretary blouse) is prim and proper, evoking a retro, Mad Men-esque office style. Worn untucked with skinny jeans and heels, it’s also the perfect addition to a weekend-casual ensemble.

Secretary Blouse

Casual yet corporate, this easygoing blouse can be dressed up with trousers or dressed way down with jeans. ($175, J.Crew)

You don’t actually have to sit in the steno pool to look fabulously ladylike in one of this season’s hottest trends. Paired with a pencil skirt, the bow blouse (also called the tie-front blouse or the secretary blouse) is prim and proper, evoking a retro, Mad Men-esque office style. Worn untucked with skinny jeans and heels, it’s also the perfect addition to a weekend-casual ensemble.

Apt. 9 Swirl Chiffon Blouse

Eye-catching and whimsical, this sheer blouse has a fun swirly pattern. The deep green color is one of the hottest jewel-toned hues of the season. ($19.99, Kohl’s)

You don’t actually have to sit in the steno pool to look fabulously ladylike in one of this season’s hottest trends. Paired with a pencil skirt, the bow blouse (also called the tie-front blouse or the secretary blouse) is prim and proper, evoking a retro, Mad Men-esque office style. Worn untucked with skinny jeans and heels, it’s also the perfect addition to a weekend-casual ensemble.

“Fashionable Fancies” top

With lacy details and cuffed sleeves, this whimsical blouse could have lived in your mom’s closet a generation ago. The generous cut is comfy, but still elegant. ($49.99, ModCloth.com)

You don’t actually have to sit in the steno pool to look fabulously ladylike in one of this season’s hottest trends. Paired with a pencil skirt, the bow blouse (also called the tie-front blouse or the secretary blouse) is prim and proper, evoking a retro, Mad Men-esque office style. Worn untucked with skinny jeans and heels, it’s also the perfect addition to a weekend-casual ensemble.

Mad Men Collection Tie Neck Top

Part of Banana Republic’s Mad Men Collection, this top is sharply tailored and strikingly grown-up in a heathered plum shade. ($89.50, Banana Republic)

You don’t actually have to sit in the steno pool to look fabulously ladylike in one of this season’s hottest trends. Paired with a pencil skirt, the bow blouse (also called the tie-front blouse or the secretary blouse) is prim and proper, evoking a retro, Mad Men-esque office style. Worn untucked with skinny jeans and heels, it’s also the perfect addition to a weekend-casual ensemble.

Lemon Liftoff Blouse

The adorable owl print and droopy bow on this sunny-yellow shirt keep the style from feeling too fussy. ($118, Anthropologie)

You don’t actually have to sit in the steno pool to look fabulously ladylike in one of this season’s hottest trends. Paired with a pencil skirt, the bow blouse (also called the tie-front blouse or the secretary blouse) is prim and proper, evoking a retro, Mad Men-esque office style. Worn untucked with skinny jeans and heels, it’s also the perfect addition to a weekend-casual ensemble.

Merona Collection “Carrigan” Woven Top

In a light olive green, this blouse has a bow detail that’s delicate, not overpowering. ($26.99, Target)

You don’t actually have to sit in the steno pool to look fabulously ladylike in one of this season’s hottest trends. Paired with a pencil skirt, the bow blouse (also called the tie-front blouse or the secretary blouse) is prim and proper, evoking a retro, Mad Men-esque office style. Worn untucked with skinny jeans and heels, it’s also the perfect addition to a weekend-casual ensemble.

Cable & Gauge Bowneck Tank

This sleeveless shell works equally well by itself on warm autumn days and under a V-neck sweater when the mercury drops. ($49.99, Lord and Taylor)

You don’t actually have to sit in the steno pool to look fabulously ladylike in one of this season’s hottest trends. Paired with a pencil skirt, the bow blouse (also called the tie-front blouse or the secretary blouse) is prim and proper, evoking a retro, Mad Men-esque office style. Worn untucked with skinny jeans and heels, it’s also the perfect addition to a weekend-casual ensemble.

Dot Bow Shell

With a delicate cowl neck, this shell, from White House Black Market, fits like a traditional button-up blouse. ($78, White House Black Market)

You don’t actually have to sit in the steno pool to look fabulously ladylike in one of this season’s hottest trends. Paired with a pencil skirt, the bow blouse (also called the tie-front blouse or the secretary blouse) is prim and proper, evoking a retro, Mad Men-esque office style. Worn untucked with skinny jeans and heels, it’s also the perfect addition to a weekend-casual ensemble.

Swiss Dot Secretary Blouse

With sheer sleeves, this blouse is cheeky and playful, but the somber color keeps it office-appropriate. ($59, Piperlime.com)

You don’t actually have to sit in the steno pool to look fabulously ladylike in one of this season’s hottest trends. Paired with a pencil skirt, the bow blouse (also called the tie-front blouse or the secretary blouse) is prim and proper, evoking a retro, Mad Men-esque office style. Worn untucked with skinny jeans and heels, it’s also the perfect addition to a weekend-casual ensemble.

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13 Stars Who Regret Having Plastic Surgery

Heather Morris

We always knew Heather Morris from “Glee” had a bangin’ body. Life as Beyoncé‘s backup dancer will do that for ya. We just didn’t know that two of her best assets used to be as fake as tofurkey. Heather told Fitness magazine that she had a boob job — not that she wore really good bras, like she previously claimed — and had them removed because they were painful. “Implants were something I thought I wanted when I was younger, and now I don’t,” she said. “It was hard being active with them, because my chest was always sore. It hurt a lot, and I didn’t like being in pain, so they had to go!” We commend Heather for finally telling the truth about her implants and for making the decision to go au naturale.

Lately, a lot of stars having been coming clean with the fact that they are less than thrilled with their plastic surgery. Here are their cautionary tales.
This post originally appeared on The Frisky.

Denise Richards

Oddly, on the same day Tori revealed her dissatisfaction with her breast implants, Denise Richards told Us Weekly that she has been on a three surgery ordeal to get the breast size she originally wanted. “When I was 19, a doctor put in bigger implants than what I asked for. I was in such a hurry to get them that I didn’t research my doctor,” she said. “I just thought because they’re a plastic surgeon, they must be good.” Unfortunately, after a corrective surgery, she ended up with even more up top. “I felt very vulnerable. It wasn’t right what the doctor did, but it is what it is.” Years later, she is finally happy after having yet another corrective surgery. “This is the size I wanted them to look at 19!” she explains. We’re sure Charlie Sheen would not agree.

Lately, a lot of stars having been coming clean with the fact that they are less than thrilled with their plastic surgery. Here are their cautionary tales.
This post originally appeared on The Frisky.

Tori Spelling

I, like many members of The Frisky staff, appreciate that SoapNet plays back-to-back episodes of “Beverly Hills, 90210” every afternoon. But watching the later episodes of the show, there is one thing that never fails to distract me: Tori Spelling‘s fake boobs. They are such a strange shape—it looked like her plastic surgeon most have made one ginormous monolithic boob to start with and then used an apple corer to drill through the middle. Finally, Tori is admitting that her boob job is a little funky. She says that if she had it all to do over again, she might skip the implants. In fact, she said this is her biggest regret. “Well I got my boobs done ... in my early 20s,” she said. “If I had known that it would or could possibly impact production of milk, I wouldn’t have had them. I love being a mom. I’m on my third baby. We want to have more. That’s my role. [The boobs] don’t matter.” Fine, so she doesn’t mention the odd shape. But she has to know they are wack, right?

Lately, a lot of stars having been coming clean with the fact that they are less than thrilled with their plastic surgery. Here are their cautionary tales.
This post originally appeared on The Frisky.

Lisa Rinna

Lisa Rinna was proud to show off her deflated lips. Apparently, she’d gotten sick of the big kisser look she got from lip injections back in 1986. “My lips started to define who I am,” she said. “That bothered me.” And thus she signed up to have them reshaped. “It doesn’t matter what other people think. I did it for myself,” she continued. “My lip has no lumps! It’s smooth.”

Lately, a lot of stars having been coming clean with the fact that they are less than thrilled with their plastic surgery. Here are their cautionary tales.
This post originally appeared on The Frisky.

Heidi Montag

For months after Heidi Montag debuted her 3.0 self, she put on the front that she was thrilled with the results. But once her plastic surgeon, Dr. Frank Ryan, died in a car crash, her tune changed. First, she said she was getting her breast implants removed (and joining this elite club who got rid of their flotation devices) because, “I can’t live an everyday life. I feel trapped in my own body.” Soon, she said, “I don’t want my face to fall off like Michael Jackson’s.” Finally, she admitted that her plastic surgery obsession killed her marriage. “Spencer begged me not to get the first surgery and it almost broke up our relationship,” she said. “Then he begged me not to get the second one and it did break our relationship. It was just so much pressure. No one wants to be taking care of his wife—who looks like she was in a horrific accident—24 hours a day, when he begged her not to do it in the first place. Spencer didn’t sign up for this in our marriage.”

Lately, a lot of stars having been coming clean with the fact that they are less than thrilled with their plastic surgery. Here are their cautionary tales.
This post originally appeared on The Frisky.

Tara Reid

Tara Reid came clean about what the heck happened to her stomach. “I got lipo because even though I was skinny, I wanted—I’m not going to lie—a six-pack,” she said. “I had body contouring, but it all went wrong. My stomach became the most ripply, bulgy thing.” A cautionary tale indeed.

Lately, a lot of stars having been coming clean with the fact that they are less than thrilled with their plastic surgery. Here are their cautionary tales.
This post originally appeared on The Frisky.

Sharon Stone

Sharon Stone is on the I-don’t-like-my-puffed-up-lips train. “[I thought] nobody loved me. I’m 103. My life would be better if I had better lips,” she said. “[But I looked] like a trout.” Yep, Sharon, it’s time to throw that pair of lips back in the ocean.

Lately, a lot of stars having been coming clean with the fact that they are less than thrilled with their plastic surgery. Here are their cautionary tales.
This post originally appeared on The Frisky.

Mickey Rourke

When he disappeared from Hollywood, Mickey Rourke became a boxer. “I had my nose broken twice. I had five operations on my nose and one on a smashed cheekbone. I had to have cartilage taken from my ear to rebuild my nose,” he said. “Most of it was to mend the mess of my face because of the boxing, but I went to the wrong guy to put my face back together.” Get references, for God’s sake!

Lately, a lot of stars having been coming clean with the fact that they are less than thrilled with their plastic surgery. Here are their cautionary tales.
This post originally appeared on The Frisky.

Dana Delaney

Dana Delaney of “Desperate Housewives” said that Botox changed her face ... in a not-so-pleasant way. When she got it seven years ago, the doctor hit a nerve, causing one of her eyes to go all droopy. “I notice it more than anybody else” she says. “But I was symmetrical before and now I am not.”

Lately, a lot of stars having been coming clean with the fact that they are less than thrilled with their plastic surgery. Here are their cautionary tales.
This post originally appeared on The Frisky.

Jane Fonda

Jane Fonda fessed up last year that she wasn’t happy with her latest plastic surgery. She said, “I caved. If I was really brave, I would have not. I vowed I wouldn’t—I did, and I don’t feel proud of it. I didn’t want to look kind of tired and jowly any more … I didn’t do a lot, right? Your lighting is so good, you probably can’t see my crow’s feet and everything like that. I don’t look weird—do I look weird?” Well ...

Lately, a lot of stars having been coming clean with the fact that they are less than thrilled with their plastic surgery. Here are their cautionary tales.
This post originally appeared on The Frisky.

Kim Kardashian

Kim Kardashian got Botox while the “Keeping Up with the Kardashians” cameras rolled. But she wasn’t pleased with the bruising that happened around it. “I think when you’re young there are other ways you can look after your skin,” she said. “Botox just wasn’t necessary for me at this age.” Really—that wasn’t obvious before?

Lately, a lot of stars having been coming clean with the fact that they are less than thrilled with their plastic surgery. Here are their cautionary tales.
This post originally appeared on The Frisky.

Jamie Lee Curtis

Jamie Lee Curtis has been very open about regretting her plastic surgery. “It was a nightmare. It made me much, much more insecure. There were some complications and I had a horrible experience. I’ll never do that again. Plastic surgery doesn’t work. Show me one person who’s had it done who doesn’t look weird,” she’s said. She also claims that she got hooked on prescription painkillers after plastic surgery. She said, “I attempted various types of plastic surgery. But every time something went wrong. I felt misshapen, just not natural any more. And I think it was a big stimulator of my abuse.” Scary.

Lately, a lot of stars having been coming clean with the fact that they are less than thrilled with their plastic surgery. Here are their cautionary tales.
This post originally appeared on The Frisky.

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8 Celebs Who've Posed As Marilyn Monroe

Michelle Williams

The waiflike Williams transformed into the bodacious screen siren for her role in the upcoming movie "My Week with Marilyn." Although she did gain some weight to look the part, Williams told "Vogue" she resorted to foam padding on her hips to get Marilyn’s signature curves. Photo source: Vogue

Critical acclaim and legions of adoring fans are nice, but the true rite of passage for any actress on the rise is to pose as the screen siren that epitomized Hollywood glamour, Marilyn Monroe. Take a look at a few of the starlets who’ve portrayed the blond bombshell in film and print, and tell us who you think did the vivacious vixen justice.

Michelle Williams

Photo source: Vogue.com

Critical acclaim and legions of adoring fans are nice, but the true rite of passage for any actress on the rise is to pose as the screen siren that epitomized Hollywood glamour, Marilyn Monroe. Take a look at a few of the starlets who’ve portrayed the blond bombshell in film and print, and tell us who you think did the vivacious vixen justice.

Madonna

Madonna borrowed heavily from Marilyn’s image for most of her early career, but nowhere more obviously than in her video for “Material Girl,” which mimics (pink dress and all) Monroe’s iconic performance of “Diamonds Are a Girl’s Best Friend” in the film "Gentlemen Prefer Blondes." Photo source: People.com

Critical acclaim and legions of adoring fans are nice, but the true rite of passage for any actress on the rise is to pose as the screen siren that epitomized Hollywood glamour, Marilyn Monroe. Take a look at a few of the starlets who’ve portrayed the blond bombshell in film and print, and tell us who you think did the vivacious vixen justice.

Lindsay Lohan

In 2008, Lindsay posed for Bert Stern, the photographer who shot the famous series of photos with Monroe in 1962 that have come to be known as “The Last Sitting.” Each of the photos with Lohan was a re-creation of one of the famous Marilyn shots. Photo source: Nymag.com

Critical acclaim and legions of adoring fans are nice, but the true rite of passage for any actress on the rise is to pose as the screen siren that epitomized Hollywood glamour, Marilyn Monroe. Take a look at a few of the starlets who’ve portrayed the blond bombshell in film and print, and tell us who you think did the vivacious vixen justice.

Lindsay Lohan

Photo source: Nymag.com

Critical acclaim and legions of adoring fans are nice, but the true rite of passage for any actress on the rise is to pose as the screen siren that epitomized Hollywood glamour, Marilyn Monroe. Take a look at a few of the starlets who’ve portrayed the blond bombshell in film and print, and tell us who you think did the vivacious vixen justice.

Drew Barrymore

Barrymore posed as Marilyn for the cover of JFK Jr.’s "George" magazine in 1996. The birthday wishes, which were a nod to Marilyn’s famous serenade of John Jr.’s father, were for then-President Bill Clinton, who was turning fifty. Photo source: George

Critical acclaim and legions of adoring fans are nice, but the true rite of passage for any actress on the rise is to pose as the screen siren that epitomized Hollywood glamour, Marilyn Monroe. Take a look at a few of the starlets who’ve portrayed the blond bombshell in film and print, and tell us who you think did the vivacious vixen justice.

Naomi Watts

Naomi tries Marilyn’s platinum locks on for size for her upcoming role in the movie "Blonde," based on the fictitious memoir of Marilyn Monroe by Joyce Carole Oates. Photo Source: Madame

Critical acclaim and legions of adoring fans are nice, but the true rite of passage for any actress on the rise is to pose as the screen siren that epitomized Hollywood glamour, Marilyn Monroe. Take a look at a few of the starlets who’ve portrayed the blond bombshell in film and print, and tell us who you think did the vivacious vixen justice.

Mira Sorvino and Ashley Judd

The transformation from the pre-fame girl-next-door Norma Jean into the bleach-blond glamour-puss we know as Marilyn was so dramatic it was almost as if they were two entirely different people. That’s the premise behind 1996’s made-for-TV movie "Norma Jean and Marilyn," which featured Ashley Judd as Norma Jean and Mira Sorvino as Marilyn Monroe.

Critical acclaim and legions of adoring fans are nice, but the true rite of passage for any actress on the rise is to pose as the screen siren that epitomized Hollywood glamour, Marilyn Monroe. Take a look at a few of the starlets who’ve portrayed the blond bombshell in film and print, and tell us who you think did the vivacious vixen justice.

Kelly Osbourne

Kelly channeled her inner Marilyn for a photo shoot with "People" in 2010, when she was named one of their most beautiful people. Photo source: People.com

Critical acclaim and legions of adoring fans are nice, but the true rite of passage for any actress on the rise is to pose as the screen siren that epitomized Hollywood glamour, Marilyn Monroe. Take a look at a few of the starlets who’ve portrayed the blond bombshell in film and print, and tell us who you think did the vivacious vixen justice.

Lisa Marie Presley

Visionary makeup artist Kevyn Aucion transformed Lisa Marie Presley into Ms. Monroe for his 1999 book, "Making Faces." Photo source: Hotparade.tumbler.com

Critical acclaim and legions of adoring fans are nice, but the true rite of passage for any actress on the rise is to pose as the screen siren that epitomized Hollywood glamour, Marilyn Monroe. Take a look at a few of the starlets who’ve portrayed the blond bombshell in film and print, and tell us who you think did the vivacious vixen justice.

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