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Eleanor Barkhorn - Eleanor Barkhorn is an associate editor at The Atlantic, where she edits the Entertainment channel.
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Eleanor Barkhorn is an associate editor at The Atlantic, where she edits the Entertainment channel. She is a former producer for the Food channel. Before coming to The Atlantic, she was a reporter at the Delta Democrat Times in Greenville, Mississippi. She graduated from Princeton University, where she majored in American literature and wrote her senior thesis about Oprah's Book Club. For her first two years out of college, she taught high school English with the Teach For America program.

7 Rules for Staying Off the Worst-Dressed List

By Eleanor Barkhorn
Jan 14 2011, 11:15 AM ET Comment

The Golden Globe awards ceremony—which airs Sunday night on NBC—is Hollywood's second-biggest awards show. But it's also the year's second-biggest fashion show, with actresses making their best attempts to impress the cameras with their glamorous gowns and carefully chosen accessories.

And just as there are winners and losers at the awards portion of the evening, there are winners and losers on the red carpet. For acting, a loss is going home without a statue. For fashion, defeat is defined by ending up on a morning-after worst-dressed list. Fortunately, it's easier to win the fashion show than to win an acting award. There are certain fashion choices that consistently put actresses on one of these lists.

After surveying decades' worth of worst-dressed galleries from People, US Weekly, and the Los Angeles Times, we were able to devise seven rules for avoiding the wrath of the awards season fashion critic. Starlets, break them at your peril:



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