Phat Ass White Dress on Judge Judy Blogger

Last Friday (July 30 already), the theme was red and white, as Judy dressed for her guests and, I hope, us, in a familiar red-and-white dress:

Her guests respectfully followed suit, as it were.

And you thought ties were passe. Keep reading.

First we had Dr. Ashish Jha, the dean of Brown University's School of Public Health, in a tie complementary to Judy's dress that, apparently, he just learned to tie all by himself.

Good on you, Dr. Jha!

Next we had our own Nick Schifrin, who looked to be in a real honest-to-goodness suit and a red-and-white tie: It was a dandy look for our ordinarily boring friend:

To this blogger's immense relief, Jonathan Capehart was "away." Never quite sure what that means, but I didn't see him in Bethany or at Funland in Rehoboth last week.

Nothing personal against the guy; he just doesn't provide enough historical context for this old gal with a lot of history behind her.

In his stead we had old friend of Judy, EJ Dionne. He too donned his red-and-white cravat for the occasion:

But I know all we care about is the "nude" part of today's blog headline.

Well, reader, Friday had it all, or should I say, "nothing at all"? You be the judge:

I don't know what's going on at the WHO but evidently keeping up with Covid has taken a toll. Maria van Kerkhove, the WHO's Technical Lead for Covid, hadn't gotten the red-and-white memo, or perhaps, finding nothing red and white in her closet, she decided to scrap the whole clothes thing entirely.

Lucky us!

Of course, Judy played the whole clothesless thing off like a pro, not even asking Maria for the naked truth. Groan.

RIP Carl Levin, the only truly good man and public servant who could pull off a comb-over. Almost.

About once a week, a reader asks me to name the designer of one of Judy's outfits. I cannot do this without your fine detective work and sartorial savvy. Most recently, Ashley commented on the "Green with Envy" post that Judy's green outfit, below, was Akris.

This blogger loves Akris (from consignment, natch).

Available to you for a mere $3,490. Judy's worth it.

Ashley hit a double as she identified what I refer to as Judy's Mark Rothko outfit. It's a dress, also from Akris. It's on sale now for a mere $996:

I couldn't do it without you!

On Tuesday (July 20), Judy wore her zippy-doo outfit which I dig. The snaps and zippers are groovy. It's like a kid's activity toy.

Reader note: By no stretch of the imagination am I comparing Judy to a zebra.

Or was her top an homage to Jeff Bezos's fuckin cowboy spacesuit?

What a moron.

Has there ever been a bigger loser?

NOPE.

I don't care how much moola you have, Jeffy. Your'e not Chuck Yeager. Not even close.

At first blush, Lisa had a good outfit, but was this some kind of poly jersey dress? Looks like neon-'90s club wear. She should know by now to plan for the mic to pull at her outfit. Judy plans for that. Judy plans for everything. Why? Because Judy's the pro. Not at all like that piker, Bezos. What an ass.

Judy looked snappy last week with her beige-and-orange number. Again, I love the sleeves to the elbows. Nice look. Yes, she has the pipes to pull off a tank, but you and I have discussed that.

So she wore a new outfit on Friday. Kind of a sea foam green twinset. I like the cut and length of the cardigan the the neckline of the shell underneath. I guess if I had to criticize (and I don't), I would say she is slumping slightly in this picture. But who among us doesn't slump once in a while?

I am on vacation next week. Maybe I will run into Judy at the Delaware beaches? A person can dream, can't she?

Judy looked fabu in green last night. Love the vertical stripes – not that she needs a slimming effect, mind you. The sleeve length is just right to this blogger's eyes. Right at the elbow is perfect.

Her hair is the perfect length now. Keep it that way, Judy, if I might be permitted to make a suggestion.

Here's a horizontal view of the outfit, just to be comprehensive:

Lisa-Lisa has upped her game, to the relief of millions. The hair color seems to have settled on a reddish-brown. With this look, she remedied the problems seen earlier in the pandemic. Not too brassy. The soft look, rather than the hot-roller look, suits her face best. Really nice job with the hair.

Lisa hit a double-double with the hair and outfit, in fact. This blogger wonders why she doesn't choose from this side of the closet more often. So professional and becoming. Also going with vertical stripes, we note.

Thanks so much to my commenter-friends (so many hyphens in this post) for noting that Judy is perfectly capable of wearing the same outfit (here with reference to the blue/white/yellow dress or top that looks like it hasn't been fully colored in) more than once a month and look great doing it.

Of course, you are reading the work of a biased writer. In my view, Judy could wear this and look great:

Nah. No one could.

Keep the comments coming!

It's been a minute, as the kids today say, so a brief retrospective is in order. Judy has been favoring red, a color that favors her. Nothing outstanding about the above, but classic elegance has always been her long suit.

Last evening, Judy wore this fitted red-and-white dress. I like this sleeve length. I am not big on cap sleeves, and my views on tank tops to come, but this sleeve length says "summer" without baring too much.

The opinion on cap sleeves may stem from this blogger's view that her own arms look like a linebacker's in cap sleeves. Here's one of me from a few years back.

The studio might have been chilly last week, so Judy suited up. She looked great.

Friday was the controversial top:

Strong women's arms (arms that are strong on strong women, that is) had a moment with Michelle Obama, and no wonder. Look at those pipes.

Clearly, Judy works hard on her arms, but readers have asked whether she should continue to wear tank tops. My view on this is (surprisingly, perhaps) nuanced. I am so Judy-crazed that I support her wearing whatever she wants, except maybe that green-on-green self-devised sweater set we saw her in during Covid times. I also hesitate to say that one can age out of wearing tank tops. She works hard for those guns and she wants to show them off. Have at it.

My hesitation comes from perhaps a surprisingly conservative angle: should anyone, women or man, wear tank tops to work? In addition to potentially being chilly, I don't know if it's professional looking. Of course anything Judy wears is professional, by virtue of it being on Judy.

Just above I said "woman or men," but I think we can agree that a man should not wear a tank top to work and hope to be taken seriously.

Send me your thoughts!

Love this red. Yes, we've seen it before, but the lady in question works for a public news channel. I like the boxy shape, which is a departure from her usual fitted silhouette.

This evening, Judy wore one of her summer dresses. It's unusual to see Judy in a print, as we know (other than the iconic Lucille Ball/cherries number). You see from the image below that we are back to fitted frocks.

I've always found this one interesting because the print looks like a coloring book that bored the child. Why else would one flower be an outline only?

Yams was apparently out playing night mini golf, if the teensy lighthouse is any indication. She tried to throw us off the scent by claiming that she was on the plane that was delayed by GROSS cicadas swarming its engine. (See yesterday's blog.) We are not fooled.

I don't feel like I've seen fuchsia with camel before -only seen it with black.

The combo seems to work.

Readers will recall I am a big fan of Yam's coats and her makeup (the pink on her lids here goes so well with her lips and with the shirt).

Readers loooove (lurve, in some cases), Amna. I think she's a top-notch anchor-to-be but sartorially dry as all get out. See, e.g., below.

Lisa, Lisa, Lisa. That cat necklace did not amuse our readers. Diana aptly called it "Too Cute, " but then Lisa has had a problem accessorizing from Day 1. Why not follow Judy's lead and avoid necklaces altogether?

Not sure what she's doing here with the three layers in June. Lose the button-down, honey.

I was so digging Ajay Banga and his Mastercard Foundation's donation of $1.3 billion with a "b" to fight Covid in Africa that I wanted to dust off the ol' resume and join his team, though Purchase, New York doesn't have the glam factor of Park Avenue, does it?

Plus which he's a Sikh. Sikhs are cool, as far as research has told me. No drinking, gambling, haircutting. I couldn't make it for one hot second. I don't mind the no-haircut rule (does their holy book mention partial highlights, I wonder?), but missing out on a nice G&T in summertime?

As if Boris wasn't ipso facto silly enough, he and Prez Joe upped the bizarro ante by having a photo op next to a cat house. No, not a house of prostitution, a literal cat house, shaped like a tree stump.

Seriously, what's up? Is it covering a spigot? A gas line? They couldn't move it for the shot? Whatever it is, it's cracking Joe up and he could use a laugh. Not surprisingly, Boris doesn't get the joke.

The world leaders got the the deluxe faux-stump. (Technically, it's a "Zilla Basking Stump and Reptile Hideout"). You can be the proud owner of the mini version, available on Chewy.com and shown here:

Reviews say it's "Leopard Gecko Approved."

And lastly this evening, you know it's summer when… (No, not when the cicadas emerge. Fortunately this brood – even the word "brood" makes me cack – only comes out once every 17 years.)

…When the teenage interns report for duty!

Apparently, Danny is too young even to get braces. If he plans to wear that getup to his bar mitzvah or confirmation, he's gonna need a new tie.

See you soon!

Judy and Lisa were together again on Monday and clearly delighted about it!

Lisa wore a cat necklace, perhaps because her real one couldn't be with her on set:

Judy's outfit on Monday was fine, but commenters love this little bolero-jacket number she wore again last Friday. Some said it is attached to the dress and others think it's separate. Either way, it's a dynamite look.

The cicadas are here in Maryland. They are so gross and numerous I can barely leave the house. Mr. Blogger has to sweep them away from the doorstep every time I need to go out.If one more person tells me, "they're harmless. They won't hurt you" I will scream.

Does this look harmless to you?

Early this morning, as Blogger's Mom noted, a plane carrying journalists to cover Prez Joe's European trip was grounded. This from the New York Times:

WASHINGTON — The plane set to carry dozens of journalists to Europe to cover President Biden's first trip abroad was on the runway, ready to take off.

The cicadas had other ideas.

Somehow, the flying insects had filled the plane's engines, grounding it and forcing Mr. Biden's aides to scramble for another way to ferry the reporters overseas. What was supposed to be a 9 p.m. departure was delayed until 11. And then until 2:15 a.m.

Perhaps it was inevitable, with billions of cicadas flying around much of the eastern United States in recent weeks. In the nation's capital, where a brood that emerges every 17 years is near its beastly peak, they have crawled up the necks of TV journalists, splattered across car windshields and gotten tangled in the hair of anyone braving the swampy, 90-degree heat.

They are just nasty. That is all. Nasty.

What's my excuse for being gone for so long?

First, Judy was away, and I find Amna too often to be ho-hum.

But NOT on May 20, as reader Rex alerted me. Check out this Catwoman-inspired leather top:

Oh wait, that is (Michelle Pfeiffer as) Catwoman.

Check out Amna, though. Meowrrrr:

You go, Amna.

Then it was time for my daughter's high school graduation and all the flurry that entailed. When it was time to come back, I didn't know whether I should do a giant retrospective or start where Judy was. I decided on the latter, though please drop me a line if you have a particular outfit you'd like me to take a look at.

I absolutely must give a belated shout out to Sara. I was waiting for Judy to wear THE DRESS again but I haven't seen her in it since I received the results of some really stellar detective work. Sara found THE DRESS! Yes, the Lucille Ball dress, the cherry dress, the dress that launched a thousand comments. It's by Victoria Beckham and Nordstrom had it. No longer. I am just absolutely floored that she found it. (Sara admitted to being obsessed; Judy does inspire that.)

Yesterday evening, Judy wore what I think of as her Mark Rothko outfit. Turns out it's a dress.

Judy's hair looks great. A bit shorter this time. Flattering.

Then it was on to the guests. I should have been listening to the point-counterpoint about Israel's political future but I was distracted by Carmiel's bookshelf. I enjoyed it. The Joy of Cooking was there, cheek-by jowel with Tolstoy and…

What?

Yes, that's a book on potty training off to her left. At first I thought Carm's bookshelf was not arranged as much as shoved together. After all, a couple of the titles were upside-down. Then I looked to the right of the potty training book and it dawned on me that a mad genius had arranged it by theme. (As anyone knows who has tried to potty-train a child.)

I avoid researching Judy, preferring to gather what crumbs our pro lets slip. In the story about Coach K's retirement after the upcoming season, Judy shared that she is a Duke alum. Well, how about that? So is this blogger! Let's Go Duke! (That will be sure to stir up some comments.)

I'm so glad to be back here with you.

Yesterday started out as a normal day, with Judy wearing the green dress she had worn on St. Patty's Day. Nice neckline…

…. And Yamiche's fine reporting was recognized as she was named host of Washington Week in Review.

And then things turned scary.

The Carter Center shared a photo of the Bidens visiting with the Carters.

Heartwarming idea, but TERRIFYING in its execution:

Holy crap!

Watch out, Jimmy and Rosalynn! The Bidens area about to crush you!

This is NOT an edited image, and it quickly turned into a meme. Late night hosts had a field day. Apparently, the room was not large enough for the cameraperson to back up, forcing them to use a fisheye lens.

As I said, yesterday, I prefer JUDY to be mighty, but this should put the lie to concerns about Joe's age and fragility.

See ya next time!

It's been a while, so let's get right to it.

Judy slayed once again yesterday, this time in red. If it were earlier in the pandemic, and therefore in the use of the now-iconic image to her right, I would have accused/complimented Judy on matching the virus, but I daresay this was a coincidence.

Imitation, they say, is the sincerest form of flattery. I wouldn't put it past Lisa to call Judy every afternoon to ask what she plans to wear on the show. Lisa just "happened" to wear red yesterday. Given the heat we had in the mid-Atlantic region (watch out – them cicadas is comin'), Judy's was the smarter choice. Lisa must have been roasting in three layers.

To be fair, Lisa often wears red, as seen here last week. I think she has a green top with this (dreadful) neckline, too.

Last week, in the coverage of the Chauvin verdict, we saw Minneapolis resident David Gholar in the best kind of red – an homage to Mr. Rogers.

Judy did it again and again last week with her outfits, some new, some old, but all smashing. Readers love this little bolero jacket — or it is part of the dress itself?

I swear, only Judy can carry off winter white. Love the ruffled sleeves and the neckline on this. Why doesn't she get her blue Flair pen on her white outfit?

Because she's Judy, that's why.

For this blogger's money, Judy looked better in the color than Elizabeth Taylor, who might have overdone it a tad:

I don't love this shade of green but it's a step up from the combo she threw together during quarantine times. She looks fragile in this outfit. I prefer her mighty.

Even in the depths of his grief, Philonse Floyd assembled a swell look in the style of Burberry:

Celeste Wallander's outfit was a trigger moment for this blogger. One summer day, many years ago, I knotted a kerchief round my neck and strode confidently out to greet my friends, only to be met with, "why did you dress up as a stewardess?" (Reader, that's what we called them back then, not flight attendants.) I was crushed. I fear Celeste might have made the same mistake, knotting her scarf a bit too tightly.

Caution: Denim ahead!

Amna looks best when she's out of her house. I love the denim jacket with the jeans, a la David Cassidy (I couldn't get enough of The Partridge Family, and I'm pretty sure I had an issue or two of Tiger Beat featuring him).

Is that tea he's drinking? How bizarre.

Here's another denim-sporting man, Bob Wells, of Cheap RV Living, and lately Nomadland fame. Cool dude. Love the K-9 companion.

Good movie – watch it!

The jury finds Judy and Amna guilty of great fashion sense.

What did you think I would lead with?

On Monday, this blogger was shocked to see that Judy had taken her first day off in more than a year (as far as this blogger can tell), leaving her show in Amna's capable, bejeweled hands.

Amna channeled Susan Dey in LA Law, (Is Amna old enough to remember that show?) though Susan's neckline was more modest:

Judy was back in the saddle for the most important story in a long time:

It was a relief to have her at the helm again, and fun to see more of the wrap, I-thought-it-was-a-blouse-but-it's-a-dress, we saw several times when she was WFH. Love the cuffs, babe.

RIP Walter Mondale, or "Turtleneck Walt" as he was (never) called. What a good man. This image was taken at such an angle that it appears Mondale could chomp Prez Carter's head off in one bite if he had wanted to.

Time to toot our own horn! A most loyal reader found a glowing reference to our blog online: https://nexttribe.com/judy-woodruff/. It's a lovely article titled, "Judy Woodruff: The Calming, Thoughtful TV Presence We've Needed This Past Year," by Jeannie Ralston.

Here's a fun excerpt:

"It seems I'm not the only one who appreciates Judy Woodruff. A woman named Megan runs a blog called, "What's Judy Woodruff Wearing?" She describes it as "semi-regular assessment of Judy's sartorial choices" and notes, among other predelictions, her affinity for the color blue. How cool that Woodruff, at nearly 75 years old, has a site devoted to her style?"

"Here's a recent entry: "Judy wore her Escada Sunburst [above] for the counting of the Electoral College vote. Little did she know she would be wearing it for hours and hours while reporting on domestic terrorism. She looked like a million bucks the entire time!"

We're FAMOUS!

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