How Do I Look?

Thank god there's a show that show women how you should dress when you leave the house and when you have a family and kids it shows them that's not appropriate to wear just a bra and underwear or a costume like anime. It's giving women their confidence back and an actual reality check while not ignoring their likes and personality touches to the new outfits for those who are upset with the show abd think it's feminist, then I think they were a contestant or a stubborn person themselves who leave the house with just a t-shirt and ripped up jeans thinking that they look professional going to their job. Sometimes I think the show is scripted because a lot of these people show up in a costume or baggy sweatpants and skin tight stripper clothes and they think that that's ok to leave the house in. I think this show gives them a reality of dressing classy or without losing their sense of personality and give some a reality check when they go out and ask others how they look because they don't know and they just assume they look good. These people need a show like this because they don't have any confidence to looking better than what they leave the house in. This show is not telling them to get plastic surgery it's telling them to get some clothes on before they leave the house or dress appropriately for their age and family and workplace who cares if they dressed like at home or Halloween. Gives people a sense of style. And pride and confidence.too bad there's no men on this show there's a lot of men that don't know how to dress maybe that will be something I could think about creating.

This show takes (for some people) "ugly" dressed persons and turns them into every other person, but not themselves; by changing their style/ expression of themselves. They practically want every person to be dressed the same, trendy, and reject individuality and diversity of people's styles. It's like taking them into the factory and turning them into all the same dolls or robots, that should have no thinking of their own. They suggest that you should not be yourself, just because some other people won't like it. I think every person should have a right to express themselves, dress how he/she wants, and not wanting you do so, is everything that's wrong with this show. Not to mention the beauty is in the eye of beholder. And for me (for instance) the hostess is sometimes really ugly dressed herself and should not have a right to judge others and be rude, same stands for other botoxed stylists in the show. Like some others here mentioned – this is bullying in a nutshell.

I apologize for not perfect English, I'm not a native speaker.

I just started watching this show. I thought it was a new thing. I didn't realize it had been on for several years. I thought it was going to be something I would enjoy watching because I love fashion and makeover shows but Finola is a HORRIBLE hostess. She acts so fake & rigid. No empathy or warmth towards her guests. She acts so staged like she is reading a script and is very uncomfortable in her role. This in turn makes the guest feel very uncomfortable. The whole vibe is scripted and fake. Unlike, What Not To Wear with Stacey and Clinton. Stacey is a little gruff and sassy at times but she has a warmth and compassion about her when the time is right. Anyway I like the idea of the show it just needs someone in there (a new hostess)and maybe director who can make the show flow. It's probably Finola's creation. If so she did good on that. Someone else with a little more tact and compassion just needs to be in the forefront. Sorry Finola.

I stumbled across this show a few months ago and have since seen it a few times. I can only say that this is a prime example of why America has freedom of speech: so that we can hear bad-speech -- like this show's -- and not make the same mistake of repeating it again.

The overall premise of this show is identical to the series "What Not to Wear": a female in need of a makeover is invaded by a fashion expert to pick-over their dress flaws. Only "What Not to Wear" takes a humorous, light-hearted approach to convincing a person to change; "How Do I Look" takes an insulting, bigoted tone to the person being told to change (I remember one episode a woman was forced to choose between a dress she wore when her husband proposed to her and a sweater her mother had knitted for her, and one would get destroyed and trashed). For me choosing between a valued belonging and tossing an unwanted guest out a window is not a hard decision, especially when the guest chooses to insult and defame me in my own home.

The overall attitude of the family and/or friends that come forward with the fashion "experts" to confront the person is one of so much disdain that anyone -- male or female, young or old -- would rather lynch themselves than hearing the comments of their "friends" and families, and especially the derogatory remarks of the fashion "pros." The wardrobe makeovers aren't done by any fashion designers / experts, and the person being confronted is clearly uncomfortable with the whole situation that they are being pressured in to.

If you have a sadistic mind you might find a show like this one enjoyable, since the host and assistants all enjoy an endorphin rush from shattering a person's self-worth. If you're looking for class, seeing a more humorous self-transformation story, and one that can give a reformed individual a sense of self-worth, look elsewhere.

This show runs on adjacent stations and simultaneously with Howard Stern's program, and it's tough to tell which one is more insulting to women. Each episode, they take a young woman (who seems perfectly happy with how she looks) and give her an unwelcome, unwanted makeover, insulting the way she currently looks and actually destroying some of her favorite articles of clothing.

The most common "complaint" about the woman's style is that she doesn't "look like a woman enough," as if to suggest that women should never wear athletic gear, sweatpants, or baggy clothes even when working out. (I guess exercise and sports are just for guys, according to the show.) I'm male, but if four people came into my house, insulted my clothing, and ripped up my sweatshirt in front of me, I'm mostly sure I'd throw them out of a three-story window. The women are made to give up their comfortable clothes and instead put on things they find too revealing or wrong for them, including cleavage shirts, short skirts, and spike heels, all in the name of making her look "more feminine." (I suppose a woman doesn't look like a woman unless dressed as a prostitute.) I personally think the women look better in the college t-shirts and jeans and well-worn sneakers, but the more important point is that THEY liked how they looked better that way, and are made to act like something they're not.

This show needs to be blown up ASAP.