{"id":14,"date":"2007-07-30T20:42:00","date_gmt":"2007-07-31T03:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wendybrandes.com\/blog\/?p=14"},"modified":"2009-06-18T16:24:40","modified_gmt":"2009-06-18T20:24:40","slug":"its-surreal-thing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/2007\/07\/its-surreal-thing\/","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s the Surreal Thing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_gTmdbGeiE-E\/Rq6vzkpRPUI\/AAAAAAAAAC0\/rGY4THLE--A\/s1600-h\/surreal.jpg\" onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5093201529147571522\" style=\"float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;\" src=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_gTmdbGeiE-E\/Rq6vzkpRPUI\/AAAAAAAAAC0\/rGY4THLE--A\/s200\/surreal.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>When I was in London a few months ago, I saw a terrific exhibit on surrealism at the V&amp;A. They had some cute tromp l&#8217;oeil t-shirts in the gift shops. I got the one <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vandashop.com\/product.php?xProd=866&amp;xSec=179&amp;navlock=1\">shown here<\/a> for those days I want to feel like I&#8217;m in the cast of &#8220;Oliver!&#8221; I really wanted <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vandashop.com\/product.php?xProd=860&amp;xSec=179&amp;navlock=1\">this one<\/a> instead but they only had it in Large that day. The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vandashop.com\/product.php?xProd=591&amp;xSec=26&amp;navlock=1\">tape measure shirt<\/a> is good for you designing types, and you can pair it with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vandashop.com\/product.php?xProd=538&amp;xSec=24&amp;navlock=1\">this tote<\/a> if you like to be matchy-matchy. The &#8220;designer&#8221; handbags are quite amusing too. Get yourself a &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.vandashop.com\/product.php?xProd=981&amp;xSec=120&amp;navlock=1\">Birkin<\/a>&#8221; for a mere 80 pounds! Another fun museum shop is the one at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.warholstore.com\/\">Andy Warhol Museum<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>UPDATED TO ADD: Great minds think alike. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aloharag.com\/highseas\/assets\/images\/english\/store\/women\/new_select_w_e.htm#insideout\">Aloha Rag<\/a> has discovered these t-shirts too, and they have some designs that that the V&amp;A didn&#8217;t have. The brand name is Insideout and they&#8217;re based in London. <\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When I was in London a few months ago, I saw a terrific exhibit on surrealism at the V&amp;A. They had some cute tromp l&#8217;oeil t-shirts in the gift shops. I got the one shown here for those days I want to feel like I&#8217;m in the cast of &#8220;Oliver!&#8221; I really wanted this one&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/2007\/07\/its-surreal-thing\/\">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":[18,24,9],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-14","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-clothes","7":"category-great-minds-think-alike","8":"category-travel","9":"entry"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14","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=14"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38059,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14\/revisions\/38059"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}