{"id":12124,"date":"2011-08-28T02:05:19","date_gmt":"2011-08-28T06:05:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wendybrandes.com\/blog\/?p=12124"},"modified":"2011-08-28T02:05:19","modified_gmt":"2011-08-28T06:05:19","slug":"glow-in-the-dark-halston-dress-brightens-my-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/2011\/08\/glow-in-the-dark-halston-dress-brightens-my-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Glow-in-the-Dark Halston Dress Brightens My Day"},"content":{"rendered":"

My love for ’60s electric-dress designer Diana Dew and electric-dress wearer Tiger Morse<\/a> means I’m always on the lookout for light-up clothes.\u00a0 Thank you to gorgeous blogger Dawn Del Russo<\/a> for tweeting Halston’s glow-in-the-dark dress<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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\nIt doesn’t turn on with a switch like a Diana Dew original, but it’s probably less dangerous. As Richie Berlin said in Edie: An American Girl<\/a><\/em>:<\/p>\n

“Diana Dew, the electric-dress designer for Paraphernalia, had those dresses where the tits would light up; or you could flash the crotch and that would go off. But they weren\u2019t fool-proof, and one night two girls went totally off in Max’s! I mean, right off. They went BOOM! It\u2019s true.”<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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Diana Dew in her own light-up dress, from the book Radical Rags. Click to purchase book.<\/p><\/div>\n

Lighting up the fashion scene is good. Exploding? Not so much.<\/p>\n

Speaking of exploding, The New York Observer reports Halston the brand<\/a> is struggling again<\/a>. A glow-in-the-dark dress would be the ultimate souvenir if the long-unlucky label is finally laid to rest. <\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

My love for ’60s electric-dress designer Diana Dew and electric-dress wearer Tiger Morse means I’m always on the lookout for light-up clothes.\u00a0 Thank you to gorgeous blogger Dawn Del Russo for tweeting Halston’s glow-in-the-dark dress. It doesn’t turn on with a switch like a Diana Dew original, but it’s probably less dangerous. As Richie Berlin…<\/p>\n

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