The pale-girl rule of thumb seems to be eschew whites and nudes at all costs to pull off the white-legs look. Yet, Haley Strode couldn't look better and certainly doesn't look washed out to me. Perhaps it's the red hair and red lips? 

Lounging in vivid, flame-red silk, Anna Kendrick epitomizes all that "alabaster" was ever meant to mean in gothic romance novels since time immemorial.