Trussed probably wasn't the right word to use, but it's a lot more exposing, particularly of her chest, than her regular t-shirt and jeans outfits, and the ruching emphasises both her chest and hips. I ided as trans for a short while as a teenager and have body based anxiety / mild gender dysphoria and I can definitely see why the dress was too much for her, even if objectively she looked nice. It would have been for me too. I think people here who think it's nothing to feel bad about (not traumatic, obviously) need to imagine going from deliberately covering yourself neck to ankle to desexualise yourself and then having to wear this and have everyone stare at you because you're (one of) the star of the movie. I can remember having extremely negative feelings around just having to dress up just for family parties, where I was related to the majority of the people there.
I suppose different people feel different things. Wearing a strapless/tiny-strapped gown to proms in high school felt "exposed," in a sense, being very different than what I wore day-to-day; it didn't feel "exposed" in the sense of sexualization or exploitation. But my context was not trans or questioning at all, and though day-to-day my clothes were usually baggy, that was bc it was an aesthetic I liked (and the only aesthetic I liked that my mother would buy), not for fear of eyeball or physical assault, and not to desexualize, and not because I didn't like having a very female/feminine body. So, I'm saying I recognize that your experience, motivations, and perspectives are different than mine, and I can see how you might empathize with Ellen's perspective (whether or not you are sympathetic to her then or now).
That said, had she never dressed up before? At that point she'd been being gawked at and photographed for years as a known Hollywood performer. Sure, I've heard that red-carpet Cannes is (or was) another level of special, but still. The only reason I can think that the Cannes dress was legitimately noteworthy to her was maybe that the style of the dress was pretty classically "female movie star," so her dis-ease with herself/her body could have been magnified by looking like a living statuette. I speculate. I might also chalk some of it as misinterpreting the nervousness over the "big deal" and grown-up flavor of walking at Cannes - no longer "that pregnant kid" of Juno or "young/mid teen going nuts from abuse" (Hard Candy). Growing up can be scary, and a few people have speculated on whether she's even now not matured - if there's anything to that, the Cannes experience could gave been overwhelming for a few reasons.
This is probably the more unpopular opinion, but I think she looked way better in her tomboy outfits than the dresses.
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I feel like the stylists couldn't seem to completely figure out what actually looked good on her when it came to the more feminine looks.
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She should have been wearing dresses that flare out more to give her more of an hourglass shape. Not outfits that accentuate her beanpole figure or grandma dresses.
Something like these dresses, which the equally tiny and petite Anna Kendrick is wearing.
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The suit with the long hair looked great. She clearly was never comfortable posing in dresses - she always looked awkward like a middle-schooler wearing her first pair of heels to the sweetheart dance or something.
But that last dress of Anna Kendrick's is way more revealing and "sexy"-ish than anything I've seen Ellen in. It's short, low, and flirty. And Ellen didn't have the shoulder for those styles
I take from this that she looks fine as long as she knows where to put her hands and no one looks at her feet. Which is a posing issue, she has the posture of Mr. Burns.
So she transitioned do she could have pockets to put her hands in!
Lol, looking for these I saw pics of her with her hands in belt loops, her waistband, or clasped behind or in front of her. And this post-transition one shows she still looks awkward when she can't grab onto something:
) and a vindictive little weirdo who has no problem trying to stir up a hate mob against people she deems "problematic" based on the flimsiest or even in Chris Pratts case entirely made up evidence, and a very public advocate for the mass chemical castration and mutilation of minors.
