{"id":1034,"date":"2009-01-06T22:01:00","date_gmt":"2009-01-07T05:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wendybrandes.com\/blog\/?p=1034"},"modified":"2019-11-03T20:12:50","modified_gmt":"2019-11-04T01:12:50","slug":"great-minds-think-alike-about-stripes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/2009\/01\/great-minds-think-alike-about-stripes\/","title":{"rendered":"Great Minds Think Alike &#8230; About Stripes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Rewind! I meant to do a &#8220;great minds think alike&#8221; post about the vintage <a href=\"http:\/\/wendybrandes.com\/blog\/2007\/10\/send-in-fabulous-clowns\/\">Clovis Ruffin<\/a> dress I wore on <a href=\"http:\/\/wbjewelry.blogspot.com\/2009\/01\/new-years-outfits.html\">New Year&#8217;s<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p><center><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/wbjewelry.blogspot.com\/2009\/01\/new-years-outfits.html\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 233px;\" src=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_gTmdbGeiE-E\/SWPSQnehMcI\/AAAAAAAAG5s\/GVaAl3QtVtw\/s320\/-10.jpg\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5288301570379821506\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><span style=\"font-size:85%;\"><span style=\"font-style: italic;\">The stripes are on the diagonal and so am I!<\/span><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Clearly Gwen Stefani agrees that black-and-white-striped, one-shoulder dresses never go out of style.<\/p>\n<p><center><a id='xHDWlA5rR85jrASRzXAWiw' class='gie-single' href='http:\/\/www.gettyimages.com\/detail\/73944551' target='_blank' style='color:#a7a7a7;text-decoration:none;font-weight:normal !important;border:none;display:inline-block;'>Embed from Getty Images<\/a><script>window.gie=window.gie||function(c){(gie.q=gie.q||[]).push(c)};gie(function(){gie.widgets.load({id:'xHDWlA5rR85jrASRzXAWiw',sig:'3dDIsn_DnDqQqQ3vdlkYp8Fj_JjSKIjFQ4FujqrqI78=',w:'423px',h:'594px',items:'73944551',caption: true ,tld:'com',is360: false })});<\/script><script src='\/\/embed-cdn.gettyimages.com\/widgets.js' charset='utf-8' async><\/script><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Gwen <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">wore<\/span> her dress first, but Clovis <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">made<\/span> my dress first. As I previously mentioned, my dress came from gorgeous blogger Cherie at Shrimpton Couture.  <a href=\"http:\/\/shrimptoncouture.com\/\">Her site<\/a> is a must-see if you&#8217;re looking for a special outfit. If you want to know more about Cherie herself, read <a href=\"http:\/\/wbjewelry.blogspot.com\/2008\/07\/meet-cherie-of-shrimpton-couture.html\">the interview I did with her last July<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Don&#8217;t forget to keep voting for me for best fashion blog <a href=\"http:\/\/2008.weblogawards.org\/polls\/best-fashion-blog\/\">here<\/a>. You can vote once every 24 hours and so can all your friends, family members, employers, employees, pets and drug dealers. I have no shame! I&#8217;ll take a vote from anyone. Here are my campaign speeches:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/wbjewelry.blogspot.com\/2009\/01\/you-know-you-want-me.html\">You Know You Want Me<\/a> (with endorsements from the late Harry Nilsson and the current Danny Devito)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/wbjewelry.blogspot.com\/2009\/01\/no-really-you-want-me.html\">No, Really, You Want ME<\/a> (don&#8217;t let fashion negativity win the day!)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/2008.weblogawards.org\/polls\/best-fashion-blog\/\">Vote, vote, vote!<\/a> <\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rewind! I meant to do a &#8220;great minds think alike&#8221; post about the vintage Clovis Ruffin dress I wore on New Year&#8217;s. The stripes are on the diagonal and so am I! Clearly Gwen Stefani agrees that black-and-white-striped, one-shoulder dresses never go out of style. Embed from Getty Images Gwen wore her dress first, but&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/2009\/01\/great-minds-think-alike-about-stripes\/\">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":[10,61,24,101,40],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1034","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-celebrities","category-dresses","category-great-minds-think-alike","category-holidays","category-vintage","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1034","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=1034"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1034\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44008,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1034\/revisions\/44008"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1034"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1034"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1034"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}