That’s what I call a visible panty line

TEMPERS have been fraying in a most undignified way over Emily Blunt’s greatly debated Schiaparelli ‘underpants dress’ (pictured, left), which she wore on Oscars night.

Blunt’s veteran stylist of 18 years, Jessica Paster, appears to have become thoroughly fed up with people opining that the gown, which in addition to its controversial ‘Y fronts’ detailing also featured elevated shoulder straps, is ‘ridiculous’ or ‘ugly’.

She told one poster on Instagram disdainfully: ‘You have absolutely no sophisticated taste.’ She was blunter still with another critic, telling her: ‘This is a fashion piece, not a Walmart piece!’ To a third she said simply: ‘I think ur a cow.’ Whatever happened to rising above it?

Paster, who uses the Instagram moniker ‘high heelprncess’ was more tactful when interviewed by Vanity Fair, saying she had offered Blunt a choice of three dresses and this was the one she went for. ‘Emily knew this one would be talked about, and that’s fine with her. ‘Sometimes we don’t play it safe. At this point of years of being with Emily, we can go have fun with fashion. Did I know that people were going to talk about the shoulder? Absolutely. Do I care what anybody else has to say? Absolutely not.

‘Me? I think that people that know fashion, like fashion, like things that are interesting, were going to like it. And I know the people that like some things that are very classic were not going to like it.

‘At the end of the day, she looked absolutely beautiful. It was such a beautiful dress.’

Incidentally, the magazine — known for its cosy relationship with stars — described the sequinned VPL as ‘an eyecatching mid-section

embellishment’.