{"id":1044,"date":"2009-01-12T06:01:00","date_gmt":"2009-01-12T13:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wendybrandes.com\/blog\/?p=1044"},"modified":"2009-06-18T20:44:00","modified_gmt":"2009-06-19T00:44:00","slug":"great-minds-think-alike-about-lamb","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/2009\/01\/great-minds-think-alike-about-lamb\/","title":{"rendered":"Great Minds Think Alike &#8230; About L.A.M.B."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Earlier this year, I ogled a <a href=\"http:\/\/wbjewelry.blogspot.com\/2008\/02\/eluxury-sale.html\">L.A.M.B. dress<\/a> on the <a href=\"http:\/\/wendybrandes.com\/blog\/2009\/01\/online-shopping-sadness-at-eluxury\/\">soon-to-be-defunct eLuxury<\/a>. I didn&#8217;t plan to get it, but when it was reduced further I couldn&#8217;t resist. More recently, I was rummaging through my gorgeous client <a href=\"http:\/\/wbjewelry.blogspot.com\/2008\/09\/word-to-wise.html\">Melissa<\/a>&#8216;s closet (she was rummaging with me &#8212; I didn&#8217;t break into her house) and I found she had bought the same dress. Looked like a good excuse for a night on the town to me.<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><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\/SWqYZ2P1wzI\/AAAAAAAAG70\/QQCvfV83KcI\/s320\/IMG_0209.JPG\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5290208282126172978\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><span style=\"font-size:85%;\"><span style=\"font-style: italic;\">We really went out like this.<br \/><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<p>Melissa wore a black shirt under her dress. I wore a black jacket over mine. We were with three other people, so we blended in a bit and didn&#8217;t look quite as crazy as we would have if we were dining <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">a deux<\/span>.<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><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: 320px; height: 240px;\" src=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_gTmdbGeiE-E\/SWqcsxsimdI\/AAAAAAAAG8E\/E7obveGFMdw\/s320\/IMG_0205.JPG\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5290213005368400338\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><span style=\"font-size:85%;\"><span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Gorgeous client\/blogger <\/span><a style=\"font-style: italic;\" href=\"http:\/\/thegamutabsurd.blogspot.com\/\">Angela<\/a><span style=\"font-style: italic;\"> and her two backup singers.<\/span><br \/><\/span><\/div>\n<p>The dress is still available on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eluxury.com\/estore\/browse\/product_detail.jsp?id=11508256&amp;_requestid=931436\">eLuxury<\/a> for $159.<\/p>\n<p><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/www.eluxury.com\/estore\/browse\/product_detail.jsp?id=11508256&amp;_requestid=931436\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 264px; height: 320px;\" src=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_gTmdbGeiE-E\/SWqZoWF4HGI\/AAAAAAAAG78\/fkm-pjQuT54\/s320\/p11508256_ph_hero.jpg\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5290209630704114786\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><br \/>If you buy this dress, you have to come to New York and wear it out on the town with Melissa and me. Don&#8217;t try to weasel out of it.<\/p>\n<p>And now for your daily reminder: Don&#8217;t forget to <a href=\"http:\/\/2008.weblogawards.org\/polls\/best-fashion-blog\/\">vote for me<\/a> for Best Fashion Blogger of 2008. I can&#8217;t be first, but I can still place! Voting ends tomorrow. Thanks heaps to the gorgeous, willowy and tights-wearing blogger <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fashionherald.org\/2009\/01\/rock-boat.html\">Fashion Herald<\/a> for writing such a nice campaign post. I&#8217;m honored.<\/p>\n<p>UPDATED TO ADD: Gorgeous blogger <a href=\"http:\/\/sololisaynadamas.blogspot.com\/\">Lisa<\/a> points out that I did a <a href=\"http:\/\/sololisaynadamas.blogspot.com\/2008\/11\/seeing-double.html\">&#8220;twins?&#8221; pose<\/a> with her, too.<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/sololisaynadamas.blogspot.com\/2008\/11\/seeing-double.html\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 180px; height: 320px;\" src=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_gTmdbGeiE-E\/SWug5O7U-uI\/AAAAAAAAG8s\/ZJihgTWvKDY\/s320\/P1020397-1.JPG\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5290499092396702434\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><span style=\"font-size:85%;\"><span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Me in my vintage coat, Lisa in her <a href=\"http:\/\/sololisaynadamas.blogspot.com\/2008\/11\/not-wendybs-fault-after-all.html\">Anthropologie coat<\/a><\/span><br \/><\/span><\/div>\n<p> <\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Earlier this year, I ogled a L.A.M.B. dress on the soon-to-be-defunct eLuxury. I didn&#8217;t plan to get it, but when it was reduced further I couldn&#8217;t resist. More recently, I was rummaging through my gorgeous client Melissa&#8216;s closet (she was rummaging with me &#8212; I didn&#8217;t break into her house) and I found she had&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/2009\/01\/great-minds-think-alike-about-lamb\/\">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":[61,8,41,99],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1044","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-dresses","7":"category-gorgeous-clients","8":"category-pictures-of-me","9":"category-twins","10":"entry"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1044","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=1044"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1044\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1374,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1044\/revisions\/1374"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1044"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1044"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1044"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}