{"id":17143,"date":"2012-09-23T20:13:43","date_gmt":"2012-09-24T00:13:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wendybrandes.com\/blog\/?p=17143"},"modified":"2019-10-31T11:27:48","modified_gmt":"2019-10-31T15:27:48","slug":"cement-strikes-back-at-the-emmys","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/2012\/09\/cement-strikes-back-at-the-emmys\/","title":{"rendered":"Cement Strikes Back at the Emmys"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Two years ago, I spent the Oscars <a href=\"http:\/\/wendybrandes.com\/blog\/2010\/03\/at-least-there-were-no-cement-shoes\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">complaining about the popularity of dresses in hues that reminded me of cement<\/a>.\u00a0 Alas, the cement-colored dresses are back at tonight&#8217;s Emmy Awards. Here are two:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.popsugar.com\/celebrity\/Emily-VanCamp-J-Mendel-Emmys-Pictures-25110113\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Emily Van Camp<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.justjared.com\/2012\/09\/23\/hayden-panettiere-connie-britton-emmys-2012-red-carpet\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Connie Britton<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Also representing the sidewalk were <a href=\"http:\/\/coolspotters.com\/actresses\/morena-baccarin\/and\/clothing\/basil-soda-fall-2012-rtw-plunging-neck-gown#medium-2686669\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Morena Baccarin<\/a> of <em>Homeland <\/em>in Basil Soda, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.justjaredjr.com\/2012\/09\/24\/sarah-hyland-modern-family-wins-at-emmy-awards-2012\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Sarah Hyland<\/a> of <em>Modern Family<\/em> in Marchesa, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/2012\/09\/23\/christina-hendricks-emmys-2012-dress_n_1908171.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Christina Hendricks<\/a> of <em>Mad Men<\/em> in Christian Siriano. All beautiful ladies but such a dreary color! Blinding yellow is the only antidote: I need to stare at <a href=\"http:\/\/celebrity-gossip.net\/julie-bowen\/julie-bowen-yummy-yellow-2012-emmy-awards-731716\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Julie Bowen<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.popsugar.com\/Julianne-Moore-Yellow-Christian-Dior-Emmys-2012-25110692\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Julianne Moore<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/gossipcenter.com\/emmy-awards-2012\/claire-danes-canary-yellow-lanvin-clad-emmy-awards-arrival-730471\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Claire Danes<\/a> to cheer myself up.<\/p>\n<p>UPDATED TO ADD: While I was watching the Emmys with friend\/<a href=\"http:\/\/taffetadarlings.blogspot.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">blogger<\/a>\/<a href=\"http:\/\/stacylomman.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">designer<\/a> Stacy Lomman, she took this fuzzy-wuzzy picture of Henry the dog with his Emmy.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-17152\" title=\"henryemmy\" src=\"http:\/\/wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/henryemmy.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"496\" height=\"421\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/henryemmy.jpg 496w, https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/henryemmy-300x254.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 496px) 100vw, 496px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>(That&#8217;s really <a href=\"http:\/\/www.emmyonline.tv\/emmy\/biz_paul_steiger.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">MrB&#8217;s 2005-2006 Emmy<\/a> for business news. But don&#8217;t tell Henry.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two years ago, I spent the Oscars complaining about the popularity of dresses in hues that reminded me of cement.\u00a0 Alas, the cement-colored dresses are back at tonight&#8217;s Emmy Awards. Here are two: Emily Van Camp Connie Britton Also representing the sidewalk were Morena Baccarin of Homeland in Basil Soda, Sarah Hyland of Modern Family&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/2012\/09\/cement-strikes-back-at-the-emmys\/\">Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":17144,"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":[387,10,29,61,534],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17143","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-awards-shows","category-celebrities","category-dogs","category-dresses","category-emmys","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17143","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=17143"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17143\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43885,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17143\/revisions\/43885"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17144"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17143"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17143"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17143"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}