{"id":13587,"date":"2011-12-06T00:01:00","date_gmt":"2011-12-06T05:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wendybrandes.com\/blog\/?p=13587"},"modified":"2011-12-06T00:14:31","modified_gmt":"2011-12-06T05:14:31","slug":"cavalli-goes-for-the-gold","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/2011\/12\/cavalli-goes-for-the-gold\/","title":{"rendered":"Cavalli Goes for the Gold"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Neiman Marcus catalog came in the mail and I was very taken by this pair of gold-on-gray Cavalli jeans.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_13588\" style=\"width: 464px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.neimanmarcus.com\/store\/catalog\/prod.jhtml?itemId=prod137630068&amp;eItemId=prod133680088&amp;cmCat=search&amp;searchType=MAIN&amp;parentId=&amp;icid=&amp;rte=%252Fsearch.jhtml%253FN%253D0%2526Ntt%253Dcavalli%252Bgold%2526_requestid%253D69778\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-13588\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13588\" title=\"cavalli\" src=\"http:\/\/wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/cavalli.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"454\" height=\"561\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/cavalli.jpg 454w, https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/cavalli-242x300.jpg 242w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 454px) 100vw, 454px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-13588\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">These are on sale. Only size 10 is left. Click to shop.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>I like the eye-catching-yet-somehow-neutral color. But, to be honest, I am also fantasizing that my legs would look as long as the model&#8217;s if I wore those jeans.<\/p>\n<p>That reminds me that in 1999, I got a pair of Cavalli jeans with slit bell-bottoms and a clear, shiny coating that gave the jeans a snakeskin look. (One of those daring things you buy because you&#8217;re on vacation.) Because of the coating, the jeans made a &#8220;whiff, whiff, whiff&#8221; sound as I walked, like corduroys. I&#8217;ve always hated that sound. After a few years, I decided the jeans were over-the-top and unflattering and I got rid of them. But I&#8217;m no longer sure that I would agree with my 2004\/2005 attitude about crazy jeans. I wish the old jeans were still around so I could give them another try.<\/p>\n<p>Back in the here and now, the gold Zara pants worn by blogger Folake of <a href=\"http:\/\/stylepantry.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Style Pantry<\/a> have me seriously considering the gold option.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_13589\" style=\"width: 430px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/stylepantry.com\/2011\/11\/30\/green-sweater-white-button-up-shirt-gold-pants\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-13589\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13589 \" title=\"stylepantry\" src=\"http:\/\/wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/stylepantry.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"420\" height=\"583\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/stylepantry.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/stylepantry-216x300.jpg 216w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 420px) 100vw, 420px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-13589\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Click for the original Style Pantry post.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>I love the bright color of those pants. But, to be honest, I am also fantasizing that a similar pair would make me as stylish as Folake. I mean it. I&#8217;m not just saying that because she gave <a href=\"http:\/\/stylepantry.com\/2011\/12\/01\/wendy-brandes-pop-culture-rings\/\" target=\"_blank\">my jewelry such a nice shout-out recently<\/a>. Maybe with those gold pants I&#8217;d manage to put together casual outfits that don&#8217;t <a href=\"http:\/\/wendybrandes.com\/blog\/2011\/10\/introducing-the-wendyb-team\/\" target=\"_blank\">include a black t-shirt<\/a>. Forget <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_Sisterhood_of_the_Traveling_Pants\" target=\"_blank\"><em>The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants<\/em><\/a> and the jeans that magically fit everyone. I want the jeans that make me realize that lime green and leopard look awesome together.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, the New York Times is telling me that <a href=\"http:\/\/tmagazine.blogs.nytimes.com\/2011\/11\/22\/freshly-minted\/\" target=\"_blank\">mint-green pants are going to be the next hot thing<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_13595\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/tmagazine.blogs.nytimes.com\/2011\/11\/22\/freshly-minted\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-13595\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13595\" title=\"mintgreen\" src=\"http:\/\/wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/mintgreen-300x239.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"239\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/mintgreen-300x239.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/mintgreen.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-13595\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mint-green suede leggings by Acne, photo courtesy New York Times.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>But how will those look with a black t-shirt? <\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Neiman Marcus catalog came in the mail and I was very taken by this pair of gold-on-gray Cavalli jeans. I like the eye-catching-yet-somehow-neutral color. But, to be honest, I am also fantasizing that my legs would look as long as the model&#8217;s if I wore those jeans. That reminds me that in 1999, I&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/2011\/12\/cavalli-goes-for-the-gold\/\">Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":13588,"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":[12,19,96],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-13587","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-blogs-and-bloggers","8":"category-jeans","9":"category-pants","10":"entry"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13587","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=13587"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13587\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13594,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13587\/revisions\/13594"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13588"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13587"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13587"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13587"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}