TV's Best Dressed

A fan directed me to an interesting website this morning (um…make that late yesterday night. Technically, both,) where the owner tracks down exact, or close to, replicas of the outfits from stylish sitcom characters!

Now, we already have some of your favorites, like Shelly, down pat, but what about those stars that veer from the screen-T to something more refined? Someone, say, like Robin Scherbatsky, Lily, or Penny, Bernadette, and others from How I Met Your Mother and The Big Bang Theory?

Go sit in the corner, Rachel Green. Our new millennium starlets are giving us an upgrade.

Robin, newscaster that she is, can afford more refined, expensive brands, than say your fresh-into-the-coffee-shop social anxiety afflicted. Her houndstooth beige number, as seen in the latest episode, comes right from Nordstrom rack, though you can find the same top on Amazon and Zappos-dot-com.

Right our from Lily’s art consultant fashionista phase, the website found her pretentious black scouting cape.  Of course she snagged it from none other than Saks Fifth Avenue, but there might be some online options besides floating around. Her 15-years-young blue tweed jacket?  Purely J. Crew.

Penny from The Big Bang Theory would settle for no less than something sweet…and a little spicy. She splurged on her smoking sweetheart dress from Guess, though we’re betting she found it bargain with her server’s wages. Or maybe we underestimate her; it wouldn’t be the first time she purchased clothes comparable to her rent payment.

Bernadette, our much more careful dresser, found her dress + cardigan staple through online and small boutique browsing. We appreciate the frugalness, Bernie, and the dress with the sweater always screams, you, but of all the characters we profiled you probably make the most bank! Take a few tips from Robin Scherbatsky---or maybe take Howard out shopping one day.

Nobody Asked Me, But...

I’ve hinted before I’m not the biggest fan of how Robin treats Patrice in How I Met Your Mother. It’s intriguing the show includes such an obvious flaw in a main character, left uncorrected (sort of) because it makes the character that much more relatable and human to a TV audience. Perfect is boring! That…might be why Robin finds Patrice insufferable, actually. More on that list in a second.
First, I want to look into the snickerdoodle that is Patrice and her essence, and why she’s Robin’s choice whipping-post candidate.

The World Wide News employee gained ground in season 7, as did the welcomed and expected rebuttal-quote, “Nobody asked you, Patrice!”
According to Future Ted, Patrice is…or becomes…Robin’s arch-enemy. Perhaps she’s Robin’s arch-enemy even now, behaving in every way Robin does not. To begin, she’s as sweet as the cookies she bakes for when “someone is sad,” keeps her kind thoughts in and kind words out. She made notable headway in The Stinson Missile Crisis when she congratulated Nora, whom received many gifts from Barney Stinson. Robin, bent, called out Patrice on her eagerness (literally—she shrieked it). And Patrice’s enthusiasm didn’t stop there. Every episode to follow through seasons 7 and 8 involved Patrice directly or indirectly attempting to make Robin happy.
She succeeded only once…in a certain Final Page season finale!

But what does Robin love in a person most? Someone she can go get—not someone that comes to her. We all saw the lobster effect; the same goes for friends in Robin’s world. According to Robin, Patrice was too “smothering” in her saccharinity, too cloying, too close for the anchorwoman’s tastes.

And, I’ll admit, Patrice seemed her happiest when Robin was least. Maybe there’s some nemesis blood in the fig-newton yet.
We shall see, we shall see…