{"id":18107,"date":"2012-12-12T19:00:03","date_gmt":"2012-12-12T23:00:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wendybrandes.com\/blog\/?p=18107"},"modified":"2012-12-14T18:04:23","modified_gmt":"2012-12-14T22:04:23","slug":"the-knee-high-boot-ban-is-new-to-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/2012\/12\/the-knee-high-boot-ban-is-new-to-me\/","title":{"rendered":"The Knee-High Boot Ban Is New to Me"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Gorgeous blogger <a href=\"http:\/\/notdeadyetstyle.blogspot.com\/2012\/12\/rules-schmules-im-not-dead-yet.html\" target=\"_blank\">Patti from Not Dead Yet Style is rolling her eyes<\/a> over the latest &#8220;women should wear this, not that&#8221; story. This one is titled &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/shine.yahoo.com\/beauty\/59-age-women-stop-wearing-red-lipstick-heavy-170100758.html\" target=\"_blank\">59 is the Age Women Should Stop Wearing Red Lipstick, Heavy Makeup, Study Finds<\/a>.&#8221; According to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nurtureskincare.co.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\">Nuture Skincare<\/a>&#8216;s survey of 2,000 women age 45 and up, once you hit 59, it&#8217;s time to give up &#8220;high heels, red lipstick, tight clothes and false nails.&#8221; But you don&#8217;t have to wait till 59 to be dowdy! Did you know that knee-high boots and &#8220;even conservative tight tops&#8221; should be retired by age 45? I thought boots were a basic! And I guarantee that 99% of women, no matter what their age or size, look better in fitted (not tourniquet-tight) clothes than in shapeless tents. I&#8217;ll grant Nuture the heavy makeup thing, but only because that doesn&#8217;t look good at any age unless you&#8217;re at a photo shoot\/going on TV\/performing on stage.<\/p>\n<p>I was enjoying Patti&#8217;s sassy reaction to the survey even before I saw she included my own photo as an example of unapproved mini-wearing after the age of 40. The new version of WordPress isn&#8217;t allowing me to share that or any other photos here at the moment, so you can see which skirt should get me ticketed by the fashion police by <a href=\"http:\/\/notdeadyetstyle.blogspot.com\/2012\/12\/rules-schmules-im-not-dead-yet.html\" target=\"_blank\">popping over to Patti&#8217;s blog<\/a>. Don&#8217;t forget to tell her what you think about Nurture&#8217;s survey, which I&#8217;m sure was totally scientific. As for me, I am sticking to &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/wendybrandes.com\/blog\/2011\/12\/wear-what-you-want-because-it-hurts-me-so-good\/\" target=\"_blank\">Wear What You Want<\/a>&#8221; as my personal style philosophy.<\/p>\n<p>UPDATED TO ADD: <a href=\"http:\/\/pussypoplikecolacoca.tumblr.com\/post\/32486600957\/its-all-about-self-expression-you-know-if-you\" target=\"_blank\">This is the right attitude<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>UPDATED AGAIN TO ADD: I had dinner with a <a href=\"http:\/\/wendybrandes.com\/blog\/2012\/12\/what-wendy-wore-conservative-versace-skirt\/\" target=\"_blank\">rule-breaking woman<\/a>. <\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gorgeous blogger Patti from Not Dead Yet Style is rolling her eyes over the latest &#8220;women should wear this, not that&#8221; story. This one is titled &#8220;59 is the Age Women Should Stop Wearing Red Lipstick, Heavy Makeup, Study Finds.&#8221; According to Nuture Skincare&#8216;s survey of 2,000 women age 45 and up, once you hit&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/2012\/12\/the-knee-high-boot-ban-is-new-to-me\/\">Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"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":[594,12,103],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-18107","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-age","7":"category-blogs-and-bloggers","8":"category-wear-what-you-want","9":"entry"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18107","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=18107"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18107\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18135,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18107\/revisions\/18135"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18107"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18107"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18107"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}