{"id":24744,"date":"2014-03-20T00:01:45","date_gmt":"2014-03-20T04:01:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wendybrandes.com\/blog\/?p=24744"},"modified":"2014-03-10T03:53:15","modified_gmt":"2014-03-10T07:53:15","slug":"throwback-thursday-short-hair-suit-jacket","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/2014\/03\/throwback-thursday-short-hair-suit-jacket\/","title":{"rendered":"Throwback Thursday: Short Hair, Suit Jacket"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Whenever a celebrity cuts her hair into a pixie &#8212; <a href=\"http:\/\/wendybrandes.com\/blog\/2013\/08\/the-week-in-review-8\/\" target=\"_blank\">or pretends to<\/a> &#8212; lots of other women are tempted to do the same. Not me, though. I had ultra-short hair for years. I&#8217;m pixied out. I previously posted this photo of my supershort 1992 &#8216;do.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_24745\" style=\"width: 410px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/wendybrandes.com\/blog\/2008\/09\/been-there-done-that\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-24745\" class=\" wp-image-24745\" alt=\"pixie\" src=\"http:\/\/wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/pixie.jpg\" width=\"400\" height=\"273\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/pixie.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/pixie-300x204.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-24745\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Click for original post.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>But I just rediscovered this photo from 1997.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_24746\" style=\"width: 525px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-24746\" class=\" wp-image-24746\" alt=\"throwback 2\" src=\"http:\/\/wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/throwback-2.jpeg\" width=\"515\" height=\"353\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/throwback-2.jpeg 572w, https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/throwback-2-300x205.jpeg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 515px) 100vw, 515px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-24746\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">I was celebrating a significant birthday that night.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>My hair wasn&#8217;t quite that short all the years in between the two photos. I grew it out to a bob several times, like in this photo from 1996 &#8230;<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_24749\" style=\"width: 491px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-24749\" class=\" wp-image-24749 \" alt=\"oldhair 4\" src=\"http:\/\/wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/oldhair-4.jpeg\" width=\"481\" height=\"285\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/oldhair-4.jpeg 593w, https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/oldhair-4-300x178.jpeg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 481px) 100vw, 481px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-24749\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo taken at the border of North and South Korea.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&#8230; but it never touched my shoulders.\u00a0 Those pixies were easy to style but the upkeep was tough &#8212; haircuts every four weeks! I don&#8217;t miss that at all.<\/p>\n<p>The motorcycle jacket I&#8217;m wearing in the first photo in this post is the one I got in high school, and it&#8217;s still hanging in my closet. Here&#8217;s a photo of me <a href=\"http:\/\/wendybrandes.com\/blog\/2009\/10\/hair-raising-times-with-the-shoe-gir\/\" target=\"_blank\">wearing it in 2009<\/a>. In the second photo, I&#8217;m wearing a Lolita Lempicka suit I got at a consignment store around 1993. I have that too. There&#8217;s a picture of me wearing <a href=\"http:\/\/wendybrandes.com\/blog\/2012\/11\/stacy-lomman-wardrobe-therapy-outfits-6-and-7\/\" target=\"_blank\">the skirt in 2012<\/a>. Homegrown vintage!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp; <\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Whenever a celebrity cuts her hair into a pixie &#8212; or pretends to &#8212; lots of other women are tempted to do the same. Not me, though. I had ultra-short hair for years. I&#8217;m pixied out. I previously posted this photo of my supershort 1992 &#8216;do. But I just rediscovered this photo from 1997. 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