{"id":25152,"date":"2014-04-03T01:12:38","date_gmt":"2014-04-03T05:12:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wendybrandes.com\/blog\/?p=25152"},"modified":"2014-04-03T01:12:38","modified_gmt":"2014-04-03T05:12:38","slug":"throwback-thursday-wearing-vintage-in-dublin-in-1997","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/2014\/04\/throwback-thursday-wearing-vintage-in-dublin-in-1997\/","title":{"rendered":"Throwback Thursday: Wearing Vintage in Dublin in 1997"},"content":{"rendered":"

I recently dug up this photo of me in Dublin in September or October 1997. I’m wearing a vintage Lillie Rubin coat that I got at Allan & Suzi on the Upper West Side<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Check out the red-jacket-wearing photobomber in this one, staring at me as if he’d never seen a woman in a great vintage coat preparing to traipse around Dublin for Guinness and Oscar Wilde quotes. Sheesh.<\/p>\n

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We were really into panoramic pictures that year.<\/p><\/div>\n

I just so happened to wear the same coat to a meeting in midtown this Monday.<\/p>\n

\"coatnowresize\"What Wendy Wore<\/strong><\/em>
\nCoat:<\/strong> Lillie Rubin (purchased between 1992 – 1995. Previously seen here<\/a>.)<\/em>
\nTurtleneck:<\/strong> Dsquared (2012<\/a>)<\/em>
\nSkirt:<\/strong> Versace (pre-2005)<\/em>
\nBoots:<\/strong> Jil Sander (pre-2005)<\/em>
\nPurse:<\/strong> Saint Laurent (2013<\/a>)<\/em>
\nJewelry:<\/strong> My own designs<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

I also wore that Versace skirt to dinner on Sunday night. I’m shameless about wearing a skirt or a jacket two days in a row. I figure the people I’m seeing are different, so the clothes can be the same! For dinner, I didn’t have to be so covered up, so I wore a Versace top that I’ve worn with the skirt many times. In fact, I have pictures of that top and skirt combo from 2004 and 2012<\/a>. Those pictures are straight-on, so I decided to get a side view of the skirt on Sunday.<\/p>\n

\"sideview\"What Wendy Wore on Sunday<\/strong>
\nTop:<\/strong> Versace (pre-2005<\/a>)<\/em>
\nSkirt:<\/strong> Versace (pre-2005<\/a>)<\/em>
\nShoes:<\/strong> Miu Miu (2010<\/a>)<\/em><\/p>\n

I’ve always loved the straps around the skirt. I got this when I was working at Lehman Brothers. I believe I wore it to work once, during a holiday week when I knew no one would be around. Between the straps and the slit, it was much too wild for that buttoned-up, corporate environment on a typical day. I thought I was being sooooo outrageous when I wore it. Now that I regularly wear a necklace that says IDGAF<\/a>, I look at this skirt and think, “Is it too stuffy?”<\/p>\n

Anyway, back to the photo of the coat that started this post. I made that trip to Dublin with my gorgeous sister, Terri Berry<\/a>. We really enjoyed the Guinness factory! After Dublin, we moved on to London. This was not long after Princess Diana died in a car accident. The sea of flowers left outside Kensington Palace<\/a> immediately after her death was gone, but small crowds still gathered …<\/p>\n

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… and left tributes.<\/p>\n

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Queen of Hearts … that’s why I dedicated a heart jewelry design to Diana a decade later.<\/p><\/div>\n

From this photo, it appears that I brought along the Betsey Johnson leopard jacket that I also still own.<\/p>\n

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Bill Cunningham of the New York Times took a photo of me wearing this jacket in 1994. Click for that post.<\/p><\/div>\n

And from this photo, it appears that Terri Berry suffered an enormous disappointment at the Tower of London.<\/p>\n

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Terri Berry takes instruments of torture<\/a> very seriously.<\/p>\n

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I recently dug up this photo of me in Dublin in September or October 1997. I’m wearing a vintage Lillie Rubin coat that I got at Allan & Suzi on the Upper West Side. Check out the red-jacket-wearing photobomber in this one, staring at me as if he’d never seen a woman in a great…<\/p>\n

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