Year in Review: What Wendy Wore in 2014

Here’s a “What Wendy Wore” outfit for each month of 2014. Click the photos for the original posts.

I love vintage clothes, so I wore a Spring 1992 Versace dress to my New Year’s party.  I last wore it to ring in the year 2008.

Post New Year’s Eve party.

A few weeks ago, I discovered this little photo of me trying on the dress for the first time at Decades in Los Angeles in 2007.

That’s Cameron Silver, the founder of Decades, holding the dress in the back, because it was too big.

A vintage dress that I wear more frequently is my bow-covered Patrick Kelly. This February, I wore it to the Columbia Daily Spectator’s annual fundraising dinner. Katie Couric was our special guest that night.

Katie looked fabulous that night.

I wore a purple velvet Zang Toi gown to the Vanity Fair Oscar party in March. I took some good outfit photos of the dress, but I prefer this one, where MrB and I are sneaking by actress Paula Patton. (This photo clicks through to Getty Images, which now allows us to embed photos. Yay!) To see my original outfit post, click here.

In April, I wore one of my all-time favorite vintage dresses — my Patrick Kelly leopard gown — to the opening of the Philadelphia Museum of Art’s Patrick Kelly exhibit. On the way to Philly, we stopped at McDonalds.

Can I take your order?

This doesn’t exactly count as something I wore because I was just trying it on, but I’ve really come to love the ruffled Zang Toi gown I modeled in May in Zang’s showroom.

If Little Bo Peep went to a formal ball.

Okay, June’s photo of these denim overalls was just a try-on too, but the mullet hairdo is really mine!

I didn’t buy these overalls even though I liked them.

I hadn’t worn this neon Versace dress in years, so I was excited to wear it in Greece this summer. My little dog friend, Irma, kept trying to nibble the hem. This dress has a history of attracting canines.

Stay still and pose, Irma!

That New Year’s Eve Versace clearly inspired me to make a real effort to wear pieces that I hadn’t worn in a long time. I chose this vintage Marie France dress for a party in August with that in mind; I last wore it in 2006!

I wasn’t in favor of the shoes at the time, but looking back, they seem fine to me.

I always wear a Zang Toi dress to Zang’s fashion shows. In September, I wore a dress from his Spring 2010 collection.

This was a Spanish-influenced collection.

I borrowed a top hat from my designing friend Stacy Lomman for a Halloween outfit, and I loved it so much …

I was supposed to be Baberaham Lincoln.

… that I got a fancier top hat and wore it with a vintage Donald Brooks dress to the Committee to Protect Journalists annual dinner in November. Bonus fashion factoid: I wore the same dress to the same event in November 2004!

I want to wear a top hat all the time now!

This month, I wore another vintage Donald Brooks dress to dinner at Narcissa. I first wore this dress in December 2008 after some major alterations were done.

Nothing to click on — I haven’t posted this on the blog before.

I’m planning to wear another old dress for New Year’s Eve … what are you going to wear?