Unflattering, tacky and borderline offensive: The worst-dressed stars of the Oscars

SHEER dresses, inappropriate hemlines and visible Spanx-style bike shorts. Some stars did not get the dress code memo before the Oscars.

Cher seemed to confuse the Oscars with a fancy dress party. Picture: Julian Wasser/Liaison

SHEER dresses, inappropriate hemlines, Spanx-style bike shorts and full trousers worn underneath a ball gown.

The Oscars are meant to be about elegance over experimentation but some stars did not get the dress code memo.

Singer Bjork dressed as a swan in 2001 in one of the worst-ever looks seen on the Oscars red carpet, and Celine Dion continued the assault on white outfits, sporting a white fedora teamed with a white tuxedo — worn backwards — in 1999.

At least she tried. Bjork’s swan dress, by designer Marjan Pejoski, is one of the worst Oscars outfits ever. Picture: AP

Whoopi Goldberg couldn’t decide what to wear to the 1993 Academy Awards, so she wore it all — patterned trousers teamed with a bustier, worn with an overcoat and a ball gown-style skirt, split right down the middle (so you could see the pants, duh).

Oscar-winner Gwyneth Paltrow continued her horror series of bad Oscars outfits in 2002, when she wore a sheer Alexander McQueen top and skirt, with no bra (and it definitely needed a bra).

Dreamgirls star Jennifer Hudson teamed her brown, floor-length evening gown with a snakeskin-printed bolero in 2007, much to the confusion of stylists everywhere.

And Oscar-winner Cher has been a serial offender since the late 80s, wearing a feathered wig-turned-crown, complete with a satin cape and high-neck sequin crop top.

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