While Sharon Stone's style instincts have often got her a thumbs up by the fashion police, her latest dress- selection turned heads, but for all the wrong reasons.

During her recent public appearance, the seductive actress, who has always been a red carpet head turner, failed to charm the audience with her dressing-sense, that saw her clad in a bizarre black leather frock and fishnet stockings.

And as the 48 year old walked onto the stage at charity auction, Macy's Passport Gala, in Santa Monica, with her back to the crowd, she stumped everyone with her weird choice of gown, reports the Daily Mail.

While the dress, from the front, looked fairly decent, from the behind - with two huge splits, stretching from her knees to her buttocks, it revealed more than a hint of bare bottom.

Three inch shiny stilettos and scoop necked netting around her shoulders, completed the fishwife look.