{"id":1487,"date":"2009-06-24T14:00:08","date_gmt":"2009-06-24T18:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wendybrandes.com\/blog\/?p=1487"},"modified":"2009-06-25T09:42:06","modified_gmt":"2009-06-25T13:42:06","slug":"the-ebay-pick-of-the-day-is-ossie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/2009\/06\/the-ebay-pick-of-the-day-is-ossie\/","title":{"rendered":"The eBay Pick of the Day Is Ossie"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I found an amazing vintage <a href=\"http:\/\/wendybrandes.com\/blog\/category\/ossie-clark\/\" target=\"_blank\">Ossie Clark<\/a> dress on eBay. Well, it&#8217;s really the dress&#8217;s background story that I loved, though the dress is great too! The seller (who has 100% positive feedback) says<span style=\"font-family: Georgia;\"> she bought the dress from the Quorum boutique and wore it on her wedding day in 1973. She says,<\/span><span style=\"font-family: Georgia;\"><span style=\"font-size: x-small;\"> &#8220;<\/span>My best friend worked as a &#8216;style and fabric finder&#8217; for Ossie and insisted that I wear no other designer!&#8221; <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Georgia;\">Check out her wonderful wedding photos:<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_1488\" style=\"width: 126px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><span><a href=\"http:\/\/cgi.ebay.com\/VINTAGE-OSSIE-CLARK-Wedding-Dress-1973_W0QQitemZ190315393105QQcmdZViewItemQQptZLH_DefaultDomain_0?hash=item2c4fae7051&amp;_trksid=p3286.c0.m14&amp;_trkparms=65%3A1266%3A239%3A172%3A1205240%3A1318301%3A1293%3A1294%3A50\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1488\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1488\" title=\"bunmvdg2kkgrhgooki4ejllm3y5bkozvvkew_1\" src=\"http:\/\/wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/bunmvdg2kkgrhgooki4ejllm3y5bkozvvkew_1-116x300.jpg\" alt=\"Click to go to auction.\" width=\"116\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/bunmvdg2kkgrhgooki4ejllm3y5bkozvvkew_1-116x300.jpg 116w, https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/bunmvdg2kkgrhgooki4ejllm3y5bkozvvkew_1.jpg 155w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 116px) 100vw, 116px\" \/><\/a><\/span><p id=\"caption-attachment-1488\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Click to go to auction.<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_1489\" style=\"width: 85px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><span><a href=\"http:\/\/cgi.ebay.com\/VINTAGE-OSSIE-CLARK-Wedding-Dress-1973_W0QQitemZ190315393105QQcmdZViewItemQQptZLH_DefaultDomain_0?hash=item2c4fae7051&amp;_trksid=p3286.c0.m14&amp;_trkparms=65%3A1266%3A239%3A172%3A1205240%3A1318301%3A1293%3A1294%3A50\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1489\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1489\" title=\"buzpuwbmkkgrhgoh-cmejllly1tnbkpzikwqq_1\" src=\"http:\/\/wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/buzpuwbmkkgrhgoh-cmejllly1tnbkpzikwqq_1-75x300.jpg\" alt=\"Click to go to auction.\" width=\"75\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/buzpuwbmkkgrhgoh-cmejllly1tnbkpzikwqq_1-75x300.jpg 75w, https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/buzpuwbmkkgrhgoh-cmejllly1tnbkpzikwqq_1.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 75px) 100vw, 75px\" \/><\/a><\/span><p id=\"caption-attachment-1489\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Click to go to auction.<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_1490\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><span><a href=\"http:\/\/cgi.ebay.com\/VINTAGE-OSSIE-CLARK-Wedding-Dress-1973_W0QQitemZ190315393105QQcmdZViewItemQQptZLH_DefaultDomain_0?hash=item2c4fae7051&amp;_trksid=p3286.c0.m14&amp;_trkparms=65%3A1266%3A239%3A172%3A1205240%3A1318301%3A1293%3A1294%3A50\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1490\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1490\" title=\"buzp14gcgkkgrhgoh-duejlllypo6bkpzjoifhw_1\" src=\"http:\/\/wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/buzp14gcgkkgrhgoh-duejlllypo6bkpzjoifhw_1-300x216.jpg\" alt=\"Click to go to auction.\" width=\"300\" height=\"216\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/buzp14gcgkkgrhgoh-duejlllypo6bkpzjoifhw_1-300x216.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/buzp14gcgkkgrhgoh-duejlllypo6bkpzjoifhw_1.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/span><p id=\"caption-attachment-1490\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Click to go to auction. Her friend looks like she&#39;s in a Celia Birtwell print!<\/p><\/div>\n<p>It would be wonderful to own a dress worn by such a chic lady for a very special occasion. Don&#8217;t forget to <a href=\"http:\/\/wendybrandes.com\/blog\/2008\/04\/snipe-dammit\/\" target=\"_blank\">snipe<\/a> if you&#8217;re going to bid.<\/p>\n<p>Separately, if you want to check out my latest non-vintage dress, click <a href=\"http:\/\/francisnewyork.com\/blog\/2009\/06\/were-a-couple-of-cut-ups\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>UPDATED TO ADD: The dress didn&#8217;t sell, so if the seller relists you may get another shot at it. Hopefully she&#8217;ll set a lower starting bid to get things moving. <\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I found an amazing vintage Ossie Clark dress on eBay. Well, it&#8217;s really the dress&#8217;s background story that I loved, though the dress is great too! The seller (who has 100% positive feedback) says she bought the dress from the Quorum boutique and wore it on her wedding day in 1973. She says, &#8220;My best&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/2009\/06\/the-ebay-pick-of-the-day-is-ossie\/\">Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1488,"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":[61,126,48],"tags":[680,672,162],"class_list":["post-1487","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-dresses","category-ebay","category-ossie-clark","tag-ebay","tag-ossie-clark","tag-vintage-dresses","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1487","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=1487"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1487\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1500,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1487\/revisions\/1500"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1488"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1487"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1487"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1487"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}