{"id":28347,"date":"2015-01-13T22:43:07","date_gmt":"2015-01-14T03:43:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wendybrandes.com\/blog\/?p=28347"},"modified":"2015-01-14T01:22:41","modified_gmt":"2015-01-14T06:22:41","slug":"no-soup-dress-for-you-yes-soup-dress-for-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/2015\/01\/no-soup-dress-for-you-yes-soup-dress-for-me\/","title":{"rendered":"No Soup Dress for You. Yes Soup Dress for Me."},"content":{"rendered":"

The humdrum fashion at Sunday’s Golden Globes — everyone wore red! silver! cut-out white gowns!<\/a> — caused me to pay more and more attention to a Progresso Light commercial I kept seeing that night. In it, a woman is pleasantly surprised by the rich taste of her low-calorie soup. She’s watching her diet because she needs to fit into a hideous green bridesmaid dress.<\/p>\n

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Click the screenshot to see the commercial.<\/p><\/div>\n

Over the course of the evening, this dress started looking really good to me compared to the unremarkable red carpet. I tweeted Progresso.<\/p>\n

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Progresso, please send me this dress and and a 2016 Golden Globes ticket so that when Ryan Seacrest asks me, “Who are you wearing?” I can answer “Soup!” <\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The humdrum fashion at Sunday’s Golden Globes — everyone wore red! silver! cut-out white gowns! — caused me to pay more and more attention to a Progresso Light commercial I kept seeing that night. In it, a woman is pleasantly surprised by the rich taste of her low-calorie soup. She’s watching her diet because she…<\/p>\n

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