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Biba Dress and Matching Leggings

February 24, 2008 by WendyB

I kind of like this.

Maybe it’s just because I have suits on my mind. It’s a suit in a way, isn’t it? It’s available for 81 pounds, down from 162 pounds, on my-wardrobe.com.

After all my suit talk, I decided to wear one of my old ones to a semi-serious event I had last night. It has a corset-style jacket and a pencil skirt that is so tight I was scandalized that I ever wore it to work. I felt good until the post-event photo shoot.

This picture is demoralizing.

I clearly need a new photographer. My husband seems to have a special talent for cutting off the top of my head while including random wall vents. And after seeing the photo, I felt a lot dowdier than I did during the evening. I think I’ll take up the skirt very slightly and then wear the pieces separately. When you can see all the details, the jacket is quite spectacular. I swear!

UPDATED TO ADD: I knew that the Biba outfit spoke to me for a reason. Check out the matching dress/leggings outfit in ’80s singer Stacey Q’s Two of Hearts video (it first appears about 50 seconds in). Awesome sunglasses and earrings too.

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  1. altamiranyc says

    February 24, 2008 at 2:14 pm

    Get it wear one of your awesome suit jackets over it!

  2. Vom Squad says

    February 24, 2008 at 3:46 pm

    Your blog is perfect for The Vom Squad.

    http://vomsquad.blogspot.com

  3. AsianCajuns says

    February 24, 2008 at 4:09 pm

    I love that suit and the jacket looks great. Maybe your husband has a secret fondness for air vents?

  4. Vom Squad says

    February 24, 2008 at 5:43 pm

    Here’s the link 🙂

    http://vomsquad.blogspot.com/2008/02/wendy-brandes-wear-what-you-want.html

  5. enc says

    February 24, 2008 at 9:37 pm

    You need that Biba outfit. I can’t see you looking dowdy ever, by the way. I can’t tell what shoes you’re wearing. Are they silver? Python? And what ring on your right hand?

  6. WendyB says

    February 24, 2008 at 9:41 pm

    ENC, those are silver Prada wedges from a few years ago. I wore them in Milan last February and everyone was taking photos of them (not me, just the shoes) outside the fashion shows. I was half-expecting Prada to innocently knock off their own not-quite-vintage shoes. The ring is a one-off that is my personal piece. I’ll see if I can find a photo of it. It’s pretty funny….it looks a little bit like a square sunnyside-up egg done in diamonds.

  7. Suzanna Mars says

    February 25, 2008 at 1:58 am

    I don’t think the outfit was dowdy, but I can see what you mean about taking the skirt up a couple.

    I had, some years ago, an Ungaro suit that never felt quite right, because the waist of the skirt was quite high and the length below-knee. I then had the skirt lopped off indiscriminately, and it came out much too short. The same fate befell a Betsey Johnson dress that ended up having to be worn as a halter top.

  8. enc says

    February 25, 2008 at 7:50 pm

    The shoes are brillo; maybe you can give us a photo of those? And I hope you do find the photo of the ring, because I’d like to see it!

  9. WendyB says

    February 25, 2008 at 8:46 pm

    SM, that might be the worst tailoring catastrophe I’ve ever heard of!

  10. Blue Floppy Hat says

    February 26, 2008 at 1:16 pm

    I <3 the jacket...

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