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Great Minds Think Alike … About Stripes

January 6, 2009 by WendyB

Rewind! I meant to do a “great minds think alike” post about the vintage Clovis Ruffin dress I wore on New Year’s.

The stripes are on the diagonal and so am I!

Clearly Gwen Stefani agrees that black-and-white-striped, one-shoulder dresses never go out of style.

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Gwen wore her dress first, but Clovis made my dress first. As I previously mentioned, my dress came from gorgeous blogger Cherie at Shrimpton Couture. Her site is a must-see if you’re looking for a special outfit. If you want to know more about Cherie herself, read the interview I did with her last July.

Don’t forget to keep voting for me for best fashion blog here. You can vote once every 24 hours and so can all your friends, family members, employers, employees, pets and drug dealers. I have no shame! I’ll take a vote from anyone. Here are my campaign speeches:

  • You Know You Want Me (with endorsements from the late Harry Nilsson and the current Danny Devito)
  • No, Really, You Want ME (don’t let fashion negativity win the day!)

Vote, vote, vote!

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  1. kokostiletto says

    January 6, 2009 at 10:09 pm

    i love your striped dress – you look fab!

  2. Lynette says

    January 6, 2009 at 10:12 pm

    Love the dress and you in it! I voted!

  3. Fashion_Loving_Stylist says

    January 6, 2009 at 10:25 pm

    I love the dress and I’ve already voted twice and will probably do it a few more times.

  4. Alicia/InstantVintage says

    January 6, 2009 at 11:02 pm

    I know Wendy, I know. Silver and gold are perfectly good bed buddies.

    And I have voted for you a few times, so I think you can lay off the death threats now.

  5. alyssa says

    January 6, 2009 at 11:32 pm

    haha, how awesome. i like yours better though — i prefer more black

  6. Little Lj says

    January 7, 2009 at 1:01 am

    You look fab in that dress!!

  7. Songy says

    January 7, 2009 at 1:26 am

    I like your thinner strips..
    I hope you win too!

  8. ana b. says

    January 7, 2009 at 1:26 am

    You forgot to mention the most important thing. That you looked way way better than that upstart Gwen Stefani!

  9. Sharon Rose says

    January 7, 2009 at 1:30 am

    Hi there-all your Clovis Ruffin dresses are awesome, this one is just really cute on you!

  10. Make Do Style says

    January 7, 2009 at 3:01 am

    don’t mean to sound like the a gimp biatch but you look so much better than Gwen. She’s lovely but her dress isn’t a patch on yours!
    My drug dealer is out of town otherwise he’d have to vote…

  11. Farren says

    January 7, 2009 at 3:28 am

    I’ll get my pets to vote for you! I’m sure I can get the local drug dealers to vote for you as well. I’ll even make the annoying boys who think zooming up the road on their rusty and rattling mopeds to vote for you! =)

    I’m going to go and check out that website too! I love the diagonal striped dress.

  12. Swell Vintage - Frankie says

    January 7, 2009 at 3:59 am

    I’ve voted for you again – come on people! x

  13. pretty face says

    January 7, 2009 at 5:55 am

    Wow, now I am starting to notice that you really ARE diagonal in that photo. Some serious dedication to co-ordination there, definitely deserving an awar 😉

  14. petite and dynamite says

    January 7, 2009 at 6:57 am

    wow. bookends!

  15. Kira Fashion says

    January 7, 2009 at 7:05 am

    Wow!
    You look amazing!!!

    I love stripes!

    a kiss friend!

  16. enc says

    January 7, 2009 at 8:24 am

    The striped dress is enough to make me want to vote for you umpteen times!

    I voted again.

  17. jaimehwkns says

    January 7, 2009 at 8:33 am

    Totally, completely, off-subject question: Are you going to do any Thursday book club posts soon? I’ve really been missing them!

    Ok, back to subject: Love your dress! 🙂

  18. jayne says

    January 7, 2009 at 8:58 am

    wow amazing dress Wendy, you look fantastic!

  19. Fabulously Broke says

    January 7, 2009 at 10:06 am

    Diagonal is always so flattering….

    Fabulously Broke in the City
    Just a Girl trying to find a balance between being a Shopaholic and a Saver

  20. WendyB says

    January 7, 2009 at 10:49 am

    Jaimehwkns, I am working on several of them at once. They take forever and I tend to put them off because trying to squeeze so much info into a blog post without boring people to death is exhausting. I will try to get one done for next week though.

    Other peeps, thanks for your kind remarks on the dress. When I saw it on Cherie’s site I knew immediately it had to be mine. I think Gwen looks pretty fabulous in hers. Maybe I can learn to imitate her poses so it doesn’t look like I’m propping up a wall.

  21. Sal says

    January 7, 2009 at 12:32 pm

    I’m gonna go out on a limb here and assert that your mind is FAR greater than dear, sweet Gwen’s. I’m just sayin’. Regardless, you both look fab in the diagonal stripes.

  22. fashion herald says

    January 7, 2009 at 1:52 pm

    “the stripes are on the diagonal and so am i!” hahahaha! i’d totally hit the diagonal if I looked as cute as you in that dress.

  23. THE HOUSE OF STYLE says

    January 7, 2009 at 3:01 pm

    Wendy you look great in that dress!!
    muah
    Marian

  24. Iheartfashion says

    January 7, 2009 at 4:01 pm

    You wear it better Wendy!

  25. K.Line says

    January 7, 2009 at 4:58 pm

    OK, she’s cute, but she’s got nothin’ on you!

  26. Krystal says

    January 7, 2009 at 4:59 pm

    i LOVE black and white stripes…or any stripes. good call!!! xo

  27. Fashion Is Poison says

    January 9, 2009 at 5:16 pm

    your hair looks so good!!! YOU look so good

    xoxo

  28. LJ says

    January 9, 2009 at 6:17 pm

    yummy, like a rough candycane. that sounded a bit weird…

    Me likey!

    xx-LJ from SOS!

  29. ebayfashionaddict says

    January 9, 2009 at 7:58 pm

    super hot. i want!

  30. maria says

    January 10, 2009 at 10:31 am

    confident (^_^)

  31. -h of candid cool says

    January 10, 2009 at 3:09 pm

    dang, how did i miss all this??

    you look amazing!!

  32. goabeachresort says

    January 13, 2009 at 3:19 am

    you look gorgeous in that stripped dress.

  33. V says

    January 15, 2009 at 11:48 am

    just recently found your blog…I LOVE this dress on you…gorg!

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