{"id":17458,"date":"2012-10-19T00:01:40","date_gmt":"2012-10-19T04:01:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wendybrandes.com\/blog\/?p=17458"},"modified":"2012-10-21T21:47:50","modified_gmt":"2012-10-22T01:47:50","slug":"what-wendy-wore-a-pattern-and-a-print","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/2012\/10\/what-wendy-wore-a-pattern-and-a-print\/","title":{"rendered":"What Wendy Wore: A Pattern and a Print"},"content":{"rendered":"

When I was fresh out of college and sartorially conservative, I believed the perfect party dress was one in basic, boring black<\/a>. I think I read some magazine article that said no one can tell if you wear the same dress everywhere if the frock in question is generic enough. After a couple of years, I realized I didn’t care if people noticed how often I wore a particular outfit. I mean, if you don’t have anything better to do than keep track of my wardrobe, knock yourself out.<\/p>\n

Since then, I’ve gravitated towards distinctive pieces. For a wedding last weekend, I wore a tartan strapless dress from my friend Zang Toi’s Fall 2008 collection<\/a>. Here I am wearing the dress — and accompanied by Zang — in 2009 …<\/p>\n

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… and here’s how the dress looked on Saturday.<\/p>\n

\"\"What Wendy Wore <\/strong>
\nDress:<\/strong> Zang Toi (2009)<\/em>
\nShoes:<\/strong> Lagerfeld (1994<\/a>)<\/em>
\nPurse:<\/strong> Prada (2007)<\/em>
\nShawl:<\/strong> Zang Toi<\/em>
\nNecklace:<\/strong> My own Queen of Scots design<\/a> (see what I did there with the tartan dress<\/a>?)<\/em><\/p>\n

For a dinner a few nights later, I wore a new Mary Katrantzou dress. The typewriter-keyboard print should make this one pretty memorable.<\/p>\n

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What Wendy Wore<\/strong>
\nDress:<\/strong> Mary Katrantzou (2012)<\/em>
\nShoes:<\/strong> Prada (2010)<\/em>
\nRings:<\/strong> My own <\/a><\/em>designs<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

In the early ’80s, when I was in high school, I took a typing class (using a manual typewriter) because my parents wanted to make sure I could get work as a secretary. A charming pothead named Lou sat in front of me in class. I had a major crush on him.\u00a0 I don’t know what happened to Lou, but I do know that nowadays everyone types with his\/her thumbs, so I’m pretty sure typing classes are a thing of the past. I’m still a kick-ass typist though. I’m like Johnny from Airplane<\/em>, without the glamour.<\/em><\/p>\n

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You can check out other ladies who choose to stand out in Not Dead Yet Style’s Visible Monday post here<\/a>. <\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

When I was fresh out of college and sartorially conservative, I believed the perfect party dress was one in basic, boring black. I think I read some magazine article that said no one can tell if you wear the same dress everywhere if the frock in question is generic enough. After a couple of years,…<\/p>\n

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