{"id":16785,"date":"2012-08-30T00:01:08","date_gmt":"2012-08-30T04:01:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wendybrandes.com\/blog\/?p=16785"},"modified":"2012-08-29T23:48:07","modified_gmt":"2012-08-30T03:48:07","slug":"what-wendy-wore-still-dotty-after-all-these-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/2012\/08\/what-wendy-wore-still-dotty-after-all-these-years\/","title":{"rendered":"What Wendy Wore: Still Dotty After All These Years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I wore &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/wendybrandes.com\/blog\/2010\/02\/grow-your-own-vintage-by-breaking-the-rules\/\" target=\"_blank\">homegrown<\/a>&#8221; vintage when I went out with gorgeous <a href=\"http:\/\/taffetadarlings.blogspot.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">blogger<\/a>\/<a href=\"http:\/\/stacylomman.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">designer<\/a> Stacy Lomman on Monday. I got this polka-dot silk top at the Tahari store in New York&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/worldfinancialcenter.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">World Financial Center<\/a> between 1992 and 1995.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_16825\" style=\"width: 470px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-16825\" class=\" wp-image-16825  \" title=\"dot2\" src=\"http:\/\/wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/dot2-767x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"460\" height=\"614\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/dot2-767x1024.jpg 767w, https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/dot2-224x300.jpg 224w, https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/dot2.jpg 971w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 460px) 100vw, 460px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-16825\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Check out the matching scarf.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>There was an Ann Taylor store near the Tahari store. I used to go into those two stores every couple of days and stare at the things I wanted while I waited for them to go on sale. It was like real-life <a href=\"http:\/\/pinterest.com\/wendybrandes\/\" target=\"_blank\">Pinterest<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-16786\" title=\"dot\" src=\"http:\/\/wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/dot-539x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"485\" height=\"922\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/dot-539x1024.jpg 539w, https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/dot.jpg 850w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 485px) 100vw, 485px\" \/><strong>What Wendy Wore<br \/>\n<\/strong><em><strong>Top:<\/strong> Tahari (early &#8217;90s)<\/em><br \/>\n<em><strong>Jeans:<\/strong> Acne<\/em><br \/>\n<em><strong>Shoes:<\/strong> Prada (<a href=\"http:\/\/wendybrandes.com\/blog\/2011\/06\/what-wendy-wore-prada-and-the-definition-of-ubiquitous\/\" target=\"_blank\">2011<\/a>)<br \/>\n<strong>Rings:<\/strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\" target=\"_blank\">My own designs<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">I hadn&#8217;t worn this shirt in several years, but I felt good in it this week, so <a href=\"http:\/\/wendybrandes.com\/blog\/2010\/02\/grow-your-own-vintage-by-breaking-the-rules\/\" target=\"_blank\">once again I&#8217;m happy that I don&#8217;t follow closet-purging rules<\/a>. Stacy was also wearing a little silk shirt, jeans and wedges, so we had a doorman at the Plaza Hotel take a picture of us in our matchy outfits.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_16828\" style=\"width: 461px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-16828\" class=\" wp-image-16828   \" title=\"plaza\" src=\"http:\/\/wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/plaza-586x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"451\" height=\"789\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/plaza-586x1024.jpg 586w, https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/plaza-171x300.jpg 171w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 451px) 100vw, 451px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-16828\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Twins! Sorta.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>We were having drinks at the Plaza because it&#8217;s across the street from an Apple store that&#8217;s open 24\/7. I needed a new battery for my computer for weeks, but I didn&#8217;t want to face the crowds there during the day, and I felt too lazy to go at night. Finally, Stacy promised me that if I brought my computer in, we could have drinks at the Plaza. A good friend always knows how to motivate you! Now my computer doesn&#8217;t shut off whenever it becomes unplugged.\u00a0 The <a href=\"http:\/\/wendybrandes.com\/blog\/2011\/10\/introducing-the-wendyb-team\/\" target=\"_blank\">Spinning Beach Ball of Death<\/a> is still bugging me though. <\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I wore &#8220;homegrown&#8221; vintage when I went out with gorgeous blogger\/designer Stacy Lomman on Monday. I got this polka-dot silk top at the Tahari store in New York&#8217;s World Financial Center between 1992 and 1995. There was an Ann Taylor store near the Tahari store. I used to go into those two stores every couple&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/2012\/08\/what-wendy-wore-still-dotty-after-all-these-years\/\">Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":16786,"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":[20,277,41,593,40,497],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-16785","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-acne-jeans","8":"category-outfit-post","9":"category-pictures-of-me","10":"category-stacy-lomman","11":"category-vintage","12":"category-what-wendy-wore","13":"entry"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16785","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=16785"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16785\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16833,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16785\/revisions\/16833"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16786"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16785"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16785"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16785"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}