{"id":10703,"date":"2011-04-27T23:53:04","date_gmt":"2011-04-28T03:53:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wendybrandes.com\/blog\/?p=10703"},"modified":"2011-06-13T15:40:19","modified_gmt":"2011-06-13T19:40:19","slug":"what-wendy-wore-feeling-like-a-real-housewife","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/2011\/04\/what-wendy-wore-feeling-like-a-real-housewife\/","title":{"rendered":"What Wendy Wore: Feeling Like a Real Housewife"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tonight, MrB and I went to the Tribeca Film Festival cocktail party where I debuted my <a href=\"http:\/\/wendybrandes.com\/blog\/2008\/04\/back-in-new-york\/\" target=\"_blank\">Patrick Kelly leopard-print dress<\/a> to\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/wendybrandes.com\/blog\/2008\/05\/i-thought-i-looked-purrfect\/\" target=\"_blank\">great acclaim<\/a> back in 2008. There was no way to top that sartorial experience, so I wore a\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/wendybrandes.com\/blog\/2009\/05\/dressing-up-for-robin-hood\/\" target=\"_blank\">less-controversial flapper dress that I last wore in 2009<\/a>. To be a little crazy, I skipped my usual red lipstick and went for major eye makeup instead.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-10705\" title=\"tribeca1\" src=\"http:\/\/wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/tribeca1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"461\" height=\"614\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/tribeca1.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/tribeca1-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 461px) 100vw, 461px\" \/><em><strong>Makeup:<\/strong> By Tennille Nielsen of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kimara.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Kimara Ahnert<\/a><\/em><br \/>\n<em><strong>Lipcolor:<\/strong> Plumped Up gloss in Twilight from Kimara Ahnert<br \/>\n<strong>Jacket<\/strong>: Zang Toi <\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Superstylist Julie Matos wasn&#8217;t available to beautify my hair, so I just left it a little wavy. I didn&#8217;t like the combo of wavy hair and neutral lipstick at all. It didn&#8217;t feel like me. Wavy hair + red lips = WendyB. Straight hair + neutral lips = WendyB. Wavy hair + neutral lips = Real Housewife.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-10706\" title=\"tribeca2_1024\" src=\"http:\/\/wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/tribeca2_1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"501\" height=\"819\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/tribeca2_1024.jpg 626w, https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/tribeca2_1024-183x300.jpg 183w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 501px) 100vw, 501px\" \/><strong>What Wendy Wore <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bravotv.com\/the-real-housewives-of-beverly-hills\" target=\"_blank\">While Feeling Like She Was a Real Housewife of Beverly Hills<\/a><\/strong><br \/>\n<em><strong>Dress:<\/strong> Vintage (purchased <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/store\/products.php?product=Empress-Wu-Dragon-Ring\" target=\"_blank\">2007<\/a>)<\/em><br \/>\n<em><strong>Shoes<\/strong>: Plein Sud (pre-2003; <a href=\"http:\/\/wendybrandes.com\/blog\/2010\/04\/outfit-post-some-things-old-some-things-blue\/\" target=\"_blank\">last seen at same event in 2010<\/a>) <\/em><br \/>\n<em><strong>Purse:<\/strong> Whiting &amp; Davis<\/em><br \/>\n<em><strong>Ring<\/strong>: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/store\/products.php?product=Empress-Wu-Dragon-Ring\" target=\"_blank\">My own Empress Wu design<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">On the plus side, we bumped into our gorgeous friends Norm and Jane and had an impromptu dinner with them at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jameshotels.com\/New-York-Hotel.aspx?name=The-James-New-York&amp;page=David-Burkes-Kitchen\" target=\"_blank\">David Burke Kitchen<\/a>. I highly recommend the salmon ham and eggs!<\/p>\n<p>UPDATED TO ADD: MrB and I were wondering about an identical pair of ladies dressed like refugees from the &#8217;80s that night. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nypost.com\/p\/pagesix\/twins_steal_show_at_vf_bash_AMC4DolifFR0BgX13AdWQL\" target=\"_blank\">Questions answered<\/a>! <\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tonight, MrB and I went to the Tribeca Film Festival cocktail party where I debuted my Patrick Kelly leopard-print dress to\u00a0great acclaim back in 2008. There was no way to top that sartorial experience, so I wore a\u00a0less-controversial flapper dress that I last wore in 2009. To be a little crazy, I skipped my usual&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/2011\/04\/what-wendy-wore-feeling-like-a-real-housewife\/\">Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":10705,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","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":[496,277,41,497],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-10703","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-on-the-town","8":"category-outfit-post","9":"category-pictures-of-me","10":"category-what-wendy-wore","11":"entry"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10703","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=10703"}],"version-history":[{"count":17,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10703\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11290,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10703\/revisions\/11290"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10705"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10703"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10703"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10703"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}