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You people! What do you want from me? A new blog post? Well, I’m working on a big post for next week; trying to finish up a guest post for Shrimpton Couture; worrying about the guest posts I promised Sandra and La Belette Rouge ages ago; testing out new functionality for the blog; and making some new jewelry whenever I manage to tear myself away from the computer. Plus I’m doing all this while in a permanent peach-sangria haze. You try that! It’s difficult.

While I don’t have the time and energy to do a proper WendyB post here at this very second, I have been keeping up the posts on my Francis blog* because there’s been so much happening at ye olde Christian Francis Roth studio. Check out all the awesome peeps who have been visiting us there (and joining us for post-visit peach sangria).

Meanwhile, if you’re not up-to-date on the super-viral Francis subway map dress, you can catch up on that here. I finally got a subway map dress for myself (the last one in the studio, thank you very much, though it was a couple of sizes too big) and Jean the amazing seamstress took this picture as she was altering it.

My hands are awkwardly placed to avoid pins.

My hands are awkwardly placed to avoid pins.

Even the fashion police couldn’t hate on this fun dress (you know what I normally think of self-proclaimed fashion police) but feel free to go over there anyway and leave a comment telling them how much you love this dress. If you want to be my subway map twin, act fast. Nordstrom has the dress reduced to $186.90 but only size 12 is left. At Bloomie’s, the dress is still at $262.50, but at least they have sizes 6 and 8 in addition to 12. I’d recommend going down a size from what you usually wear. Of course, if you’re in New York, it doesn’t matter what size you get because Jean will take care of your alterations needs. I have to brag about Jean for a moment. She’s featured in InStyle’s new Makeover issue and I will be scanning that in here eventually, but since it might take me a while, run out and buy the magazine so you can admire her work.

*All good things must come to an end. As I reported here, I stopped writing the Francis blog after six months. Later on, it was deleted, so I took out all the dead links in this post.

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  2. Such a pretty and fun dress!
    I get a lot of perverts searching for “girls in spandex” etc, but the most demented keyword I’ve ever noticed was “eat spandex.” This person was most certainly disappointed. lol…

  7. So sweet of you to let me know. I’ve still been stalking this dress and hoping my size would turn up. Since I don’t live in the US right now it complicates things and I will be traveling for 3 months before I need it for a special event in Los Angeles… I’m still hoping to add this one to my collection!

    Thanks so much!!
    emily

  9. Hey

    thanks for leaving a comment on my blog. You have a lovely blog out here, I love the dress you are wearing in this post. I would love to exchange inks with you:-)

  12. Grats, you finally got your own 🙂 My WV was “mad queen” which takes me to Queen Joanna of Spain, which in turn takes me to Umberto Eco’s “The Mysterious Flame of Queen Loana”, which has nothing to do with Mad Joanna, but is a brilliant book I think you’d enjoy, if you haven’t read it yet 🙂

  13. YAY! I am now the proud owner of this dress… they finally had my size back in stock and I snapped one up. It will be a couple months until I can try it on, but I cannot wait.

    Thanks again Wendy!!