{"id":1016,"date":"2008-12-23T22:01:00","date_gmt":"2008-12-24T05:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wendybrandes.com\/blog\/?p=1016"},"modified":"2008-12-23T22:01:00","modified_gmt":"2008-12-24T05:01:00","slug":"donald-brooks-dress-debut","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/2008\/12\/donald-brooks-dress-debut\/","title":{"rendered":"Donald Brooks Dress Debut"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/wbjewelry.blogspot.com\/2008\/12\/ebay-easy-come-easy-go.html\">Earlier this month<\/a>, I mentioned that I got this vintage <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Donald_Brooks\">Donald Brooks<\/a> dress on eBay.<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/wbjewelry.blogspot.com\/2008\/12\/ebay-easy-come-easy-go.html\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 214px;\" src=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_gTmdbGeiE-E\/SVGmulxQHNI\/AAAAAAAAG3E\/Bygm9gIES4o\/s320\/f201d8a1.jpg\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5283187157225184466\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><span style=\"font-size:85%;\"><span style=\"font-style: italic;\">The dress in its original form. Photos by eBay seller.<\/span> <\/span><\/div>\n<p>After having the wonderful <a href=\"http:\/\/newyork.citysearch.com\/profile\/32900283\/new_york_ny\/ghost_tailor.html\">Jean of Ghost Tailor<\/a> make some serious alterations, I wore it to my birthday dinner with MrB last night.<\/p>\n<p><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 240px; height: 320px;\" src=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_gTmdbGeiE-E\/SVGrHrqv_vI\/AAAAAAAAG3M\/1YmFlPPEJ7s\/s320\/birthday+dress+2008.jpg\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5283191986351767282\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><br \/>In this picture, I&#8217;m wearing the dress with my self-designed gold <a href=\"http:\/\/wbjewelry.blogspot.com\/2008\/12\/sneak-preview-of-new-locket-design.html\">Hatshepsut locket<\/a>, my Lagerfeld shoes <a href=\"http:\/\/wbjewelry.blogspot.com\/2008\/04\/old-shooz-and-final-la-photos.html\">from 1994<\/a> and a pair of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.emiliocavallini.com\/hp.htm\">Emilio Cavallini tights<\/a> that were apparently &#8220;one size fits most giraffes.&#8221; (If you&#8217;re 6 feet tall and want a pair of used tights, let me know.) I think I am also wearing a little sugar on the front of the dress from the big pile of cotton candy that was presented to me as a birthday dessert. The cotton candy looked like Marie Antoinette&#8217;s wig with a candle in it.<\/p>\n<p>At the beginning of this month, I wore a different Donald Brooks dress with my silver Hatshepsut locket.<\/p>\n<p><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 240px; height: 320px;\" src=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_gTmdbGeiE-E\/SVGwxy6PDhI\/AAAAAAAAG3U\/0PpEx_joEwA\/s320\/donaldbrooks.jpg\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5283198207408410130\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><br \/>The multi-colored dress is the same one I wore when <a href=\"http:\/\/labeletterouge.blogspot.com\/2008\/01\/wwwwow-weasels-wendy-other-wendy-and.html\">I went out with gorgeous blogger La Belette Rouge<\/a> in January 2008. I love both the above Brooks dresses, but my favorite Donald Brooks acquisition is still the <a href=\"http:\/\/wbjewelry.blogspot.com\/2007\/10\/i-am-not-puritan.html\">Sex-ay Pilgrim dress<\/a>. All three Brooks dresses are incredibly well-made. Brooks is an underappreciated designer and his pieces are often a bargain on eBay, so keep an eye out for them. And remember, you better <a href=\"http:\/\/wbjewelry.blogspot.com\/2008\/04\/snipe-dammit.html\">snipe<\/a> if you want to beat my bids.<\/p>\n<p>By the way, I&#8217;m posting as usual through the holidays. So when you&#8217;re tired of dealing with your family, especially that drunk uncle who always touches you inappropriately, sneak away with your laptop and visit WendyB. I won&#8217;t touch you inappropriately, not even if you beg me to. And, oh, you know you WILL beg. You always do, you slut! <\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Earlier this month, I mentioned that I got this vintage Donald Brooks dress on eBay. The dress in its original form. Photos by eBay seller. After having the wonderful Jean of Ghost Tailor make some serious alterations, I wore it to my birthday dinner with MrB last night. In this picture, I&#8217;m wearing the dress&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/2008\/12\/donald-brooks-dress-debut\/\">Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[52,126,43,13,41,129],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1016","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-birthdays","7":"category-ebay","8":"category-my-designs","9":"category-necklaces","10":"category-pictures-of-me","11":"category-vintage-designers","12":"entry"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1016","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1016"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1016\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1016"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1016"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1016"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}