Word: ingenuedom
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...found an audience among the urban women-girls in their 20s and 30s who perhaps might relate to Bridget Jones' Diary more than they would acknowledge. Indeed, Yates' clothes have attracted some of the very celebrities--Drew Barrymore, Jennifer Aniston, Courteney Cox--who seem affixed in permanent ingenuedom...
...referring to her Chanel-outfitted colleagues as "girls." See twentysomethings like Winona Ryder, Juliette Lewis or Uma Thurman in movies and interviews and you realize that young actresses do not seem to be all that interested in growing up and getting out of their baseball sneakers. In the '90s, ingenuedom has become interminable: Lauren Bacall was a woman at 19; Sandra Bullock and Sarah Jessica Parker are girls at 31. But then many young actresses today work harder at charming us with their boppy neuroses than luring us with their sensuality...
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