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What Wendy Wore: Not a Protest T-Shirt

November 20, 2020 by WendyB

Thanks to beautiful, spring-like, holy-shit-climate-change-is-here weather and a reserved ticket to the Metropolitan Museum of Art, I wore a real shirt today. I’ve rarely worn anything except activism-related t-shirts since I first stepped out of quarantine in April. Actually, I felt a little uncomfortable until I realized my Justice mask from Black Lives Matter would still…

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Filed Under: About Wendy, activism, Fashion, favorite brands, homegrown vintage, outfit post, pictures of me, prada, What Wendy Wore Tagged With: metropolitan museum of art, slow fashion

What Wendy Wore: Squeeee! Anna Sui!

November 20, 2019 by WendyB

Last week, I attended the “Blue” conference held by Initiatives in Art and Culture, which included a talk featuring British designer Zandra Rhodes and American designer Anna Sui. I planned to wear my red and pink Zandra Rhodes chiffon dress to that panel, but at the last minute, I was inspired to go with a…

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Filed Under: About Wendy, dresses, Fashion, Ossie Clark, outfit post, pictures of me, prada, vintage, vintage designers, What Wendy Wore Tagged With: anna sui, initiatives in art and culture, slow fashion, slow fashion movement, zandra rhodes

Throwback Thursday: Final Summer 2019 Lewks

November 14, 2019 by WendyB

Like I said last month, activism has taken a lot out of me and I didn’t blog my relatively few interesting summer looks in a timely fashion. Even in that October post, I only managed two. So here’s the best of the rest from my slow-fashion summer of 2019. On June 12, I was excited…

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Filed Under: About Wendy, awards, designers, dresses, Fashion, favorite brands, flower pinching, homegrown vintage, outfit post, pictures of me, prada, Rising Star Award, Throwback Thursday, What Wendy Wore Tagged With: it's chic to repeat, slow fashion, slow fashion movement

What Wendy Wore: Vintage Madonna

October 16, 2019 by WendyB

Madonna was at the Brooklyn Academy of Music this month with her “Madame X” tour, and of course I was there — twice! I’ve never missed one of her tours, and I do like to catch two performances per tour. You can find out more about my decades of fandom from the YouTube video I…

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Filed Under: 80s style, Arts & Entertainment, Celebrities, Fashion, favorite brands, homegrown vintage, madonna, music, outfit post, pictures of me, prada, t-shirts, vintage WendyB photos, What Wendy Wore Tagged With: madame x tour, madonna tour, slow fashion

What Wendy Wore: Slow-Fashion McQueen

August 27, 2019 by WendyB

I’ve been dressing very casually lately, so I made a point of putting on a dress for MrB’s belated birthday dinner on Sunday. Dress:  Alexander McQueen (2010) Shoes: Prada (2010) This dress by Alexander McQueen is homegrown vintage. I wore it for the first time during a 2010 trip to L.A., for dinner with my…

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Filed Under: About Wendy, dresses, Fashion, homegrown vintage, outfit post, pictures of me, prada, repeat offender collage, vintage WendyB photos, What Wendy Wore Tagged With: alexander mcqueen, slow fashion, slow fashion movement

What Wendy Wore: Ossie Clark at the Loebs Again

June 27, 2019 by WendyB

MrB almost always attends the annual Gerald Loeb Awards for business and financial journalism. He got the Loeb lifetime achievement award himlsef in 2002, and I don’t think a year’s gone by when someone hasn’t thanked him in an acceptance speech. I often go to the Loebs with him to catch up with people I’ve…

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Filed Under: designers, dresses, Fashion, homegrown vintage, Ossie Clark, outfit post, pictures of me, prada, repeat offender collage, Throwback Thursday, vintage, vintage designers, What Wendy Wore Tagged With: celia birtwell, loeb awards, slow fashion, slow fashion movement

What Wendy Wore: Columbia Spectator Slow Fashion

May 16, 2019 by WendyB

The Columbia Daily Spectator — the undergraduate news organization of Columbia University in New York — had its annual fundraiser last Friday. This was a pleasant change, because the dinner has been held in January or February for ages. Last year, the students told the board of alumni trustees, of which I’m a member, that…

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Filed Under: clothes, columbia daily spectator, designers, dresses, Fashion, homegrown vintage, journalism, outfit post, pictures of me, prada, Special Occasions, vintage, What Wendy Wore Tagged With: slow fashion, slow fashion movement

Olivia Colman’s Dress; Week in Review

March 3, 2019 by WendyB

Before I get to the blog week in review, I need to share Elizabeth Paton’s New York Times story about how Best Actress winner Olivia Colman got her custom-made Prada gown for the ceremony — even though she is 45 and not a size zero. This story answers nearly all of the questions I asked…

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Filed Under: About Wendy, awards shows, Celebrities, Fashion, favorite brands, movies, oscars, prada, video Tagged With: olivia colman

Throwback Thursday: 2014 Oscars, 2019 GEM Awards

January 17, 2019 by WendyB

In 2014, I wore a Zang Toi trench gown to the Vanity Fair Oscar party. Last week, I wore the same dress to the GEM Awards — aka “the Academy Awards of the fine jewelry industry” — where I posed for a photo with Monica Stephenson, the founder of ANZA Gems. What Wendy WoreDress: Zang…

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Filed Under: About Wendy, dresses, Fashion, homegrown vintage, outfit post, parties, pictures of me, prada, Special Occasions, The WendyB Pose, Throwback Thursday, vanity fair oscar party, What Wendy Wore Tagged With: GEM awards, jewelers of america, slow fashion, zang toi

The Week in Review

May 6, 2018 by WendyB

In case you missed it, here’s what was on the blog this week. Tuesday, May 1:  Snakeskin is back, and I have to dig up a photo of my shiny snake-pattern pants from the late 1990s. Wednesday, May 2: In this week’s YouTube video, I talked about how I changed my career and what you…

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Award-winning designer of fine jewelry inspired by women's history and pop culture. A former journalist who writes about jewelry, fashion, medieval history, news, feminism, dogs, cats and whatever else is on her mind. Blogging since 2007.
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