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Jackets, Now and Then

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Earlier this week, I wore the Ossie Clark shirt/jacket I got in London last year.


Back in 1983 or 1984, I wore a kickass ski jacket. Thanks for dredging this up, high-school classmate Mel. Oh, the wonders of Facebook.


UPDATED TO ADD: In the first photo, I’m wearing the gold version of my Nuit Ring. Don’t mess with me when I’m wearing a 33-carat blue topaz set in more than an ounce of gold. I could hurt you with that thing.

Nuit Ring in gold
©Wendy Brandes
Photo by Squaremoose

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  4. yeah you really look the same
    and that ski jacket is hot!
    The Ossie Clark is okay too….

  5. Oh man, how cool are YOU right there?!

    I’m 99% sure I owned that same jacket, but I’m also sure I never wore it with such aplomb. And your hair was, well, bitchin’.

  8. Darling you havent aged a day since that ski jacket photo! I adore that Ossie! He was a master cutter!
    Darling what an amazing comment you left on my current post but what I will say is your fabulous now and would be honored to ever style you :). Also I’ve been dying to pull amazing Wendy Brande pieces for styling clients for events!
    x
    Marian.

  10. That is one amazing ski jacket, if you still had it now you would be able to wear it all over again.
    The top jacket is totally flattering on you, it looks beautiful.
    x

  11. The Ossi Clark jacket looks great on you! Also love the ski jacket pic as well 🙂

  13. Decades has a fabulous Ossie dress that they posted yesterday. I’d love to wear it, but I’d look like a hooker in it!

    I would torture anyone who posts pics of my big ass hair from HS in the 80’s. I used to be asked if it (my big ass Texas hair) was a wig! The miracles of tiny pink sponge rollers. I should have been a child of the 60’s

  14. Oh, I love it! BIG SMILES! 🙂

    And I am in awe of that ring. Please let me know if you ever knock someone out with it. I’d like to be there to witness the damage it inflicts. Haha.

  16. I love huge rings, simply set- yours is stunning. Blue topaz: quite reasonable for the stone in a boulder-sized ring.

  17. your random fB high school pic is pretty awesome – and i love the ring. it’s such a perfect weight and dimension!

  18. great jacket and ring too.
    you look much older in the high school picture, hm…must figure out the secret of reverse aging…

  20. You look so hip even back then… on the hair; stick to the ‘now’ style darling! 😉 PS- saw your friend Zang Toi on tv last night!

  21. How adorable are you in that ski jacket!? Reminds me of my “CB” from the 80s!
    And the ring is stunning! I adore blue stones as my birthstone is topaz 🙂

    xoxox,
    CC

  27. Honestly, you do not look a day older! (And you have a variation of my current hair style – leading me to wonder about how Pat Benatar I actually am)

  31. Hi Dorian Grey – You look the same!

    (drooling for that ring – I think that is the one I tried on…someday…)

  34. Too cool…both the early photo of that classic Wendy look, and the philosophy on “Don’t mess with me…”!
    tp

  36. I officially give you the best smile of all bloggers.

    Please make yourself a ribbon out of construction paper and wear it with pride.

  37. I can’t believe that you haven’t changed one bit. And love love love the Ossie Clark jacket, divine.

  39. LOVE your jacket in the 1st photo. and 33 carats??? wow, you could knock someone out w/just the bling factor alone.

  40. You are the same lovely, creamy-complexioned girl in both photos! And boy, do you know how to wear a jacket.

  45. wendy you haven’t changed at all since the 80s besides your hair, you are so lucky!

  47. LOL @ your hair in the high school photo! That pic is priceless. But you’re so lucky Wendy you look exactly like you did when you were a teenager! (and thats a good thing!)

  49. Wendy, don’t you wish we could travel back and time and relive the fun 80s? It was fun, eccentric, no rules! You are rocking that quilted jacket and hair! And so fashion forward with your tight little fit.