Consider them the forgotten majority. They are the women who want to look nice but more often than not are in jeans and a top they bought on sale.

They like their makeup and have a favorite pair of boots, but the reality is they want to be comfortable and not spend a fortune on clothes.

Melissa Peterman, host of The Singing Bee, airing Fridays on Country Music Television, is the perfect example of this woman.

Her style blends in beautifully on the show, where most of the contestants look as if they could be running errands, attending a PTA meeting or having coffee with a pal.

Peterman describes her look on the show as "fun and flirty, comfortable as well."

"It is definitely me," Peterman says.

"I am in sweat pants and tennis shoes," she says of what she's wearing while talking from her L.A. home. "I do love everything I have worn on the show. I usually end up buying it and taking it home."

Many of her outfits are from Rebecca Taylor. Most of the jeans are from J Brand.

Peterman raves over the accessories she gets to wear, and since it would be odd for her to carry a purse on a stage where people are singing, the accessories are limited to jewelry.

"There's a great new brand with awesome rhinestones, and the jewelry is Sophia & Chloe," she says.

Peterman, like many actors on a series, may borrow clothes from the show, as she did to appear on the CMT Music Awards.

"With a makeup team, four hours later, I look presentable," she says.

This season, Peterman found what so many women seek - the perfect boots.

"The boots I wore a lot are slouchy ones from Coach," she says. "I would beg to do stuff in them."

In a reverse of actors asking to borrow from wardrobe - or worse, permanently borrowing - 
Peterman so loved these boots, she bought a pair that would not have to be returned to the wardrobe department.

"It's (got a) perfect heel," she says. "It's not too high, not too low. I can pull them up and pull them down low."

Heels hold no allure for her because she's on her feet for much of the show, and the action of the competition stops and starts.

"There is no way I was going to be up there in a pencil skirt and the highest heels," Peterman says.

She acknowledges that many women, particularly actresses, suffer far more to create high-fashion looks than she does.

"A lot of people will go through a lot of pain and agony," she says. "The only pain and agony I will go through is Spanx."

And Spanx has become a fixture, albeit a hidden one, of most women, keeping Peterman in that forgotten majority - looking nice in a very woman-next-door way.

Post originally published by Jacqueline Culter on Zap2It.com