I have a different take on this from most reviewers

Rating: 8/10 (24 April 2010)

I have to say as a male - and approaching the fashion industry as Anne Hatheway's character did - thinking she was "apart" from it - a bit of dialogue from Meryl Streep's character was really an education for me.
Anne's character, "Andrea", snickers when a model, selecting 2 belts for Streep's character, saying that she "still has to learn this stuff".
What follows from Streep's character is some of the most powerful dialog I have seen on the screen.
Addressing the innocuous sweater that Andrea is wearing, Miranda Priestly then goes into the history of the color of her sweater - not "blue" but "cerulean" when the color was unveiled, how it filtered down from the designers to the department stores and finally " where you fished it out of some bargain bin in some Casual Corner".
"So It's sort of comical how you think that you've made a choice that exempts you from the fashion industry when in fact - you're wearing a sweater that was selected for you by the people in this room from a pile of "stuff".
Having seen back-to-back Streep movies Julie and Julia - now this - I can see why she is so revered as an actress.
As to the movie it is funny and for a relatively fashion-ignorant guy, educational.
Most of us have all had a "boss from Hell" and it is funny to see how Andrea handles this as it unfolds.