{"id":30792,"date":"2015-11-02T21:15:29","date_gmt":"2015-11-03T02:15:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wendybrandes.com\/blog\/?p=30792"},"modified":"2015-11-02T21:15:29","modified_gmt":"2015-11-03T02:15:29","slug":"what-wendy-wore-halloween-with-ringo-starr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/2015\/11\/what-wendy-wore-halloween-with-ringo-starr\/","title":{"rendered":"What Wendy Wore: Halloween With Ringo Starr"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I like to catch <a href=\"http:\/\/wendybrandes.com\/blog\/2014\/06\/happy-birthday-to-paul-mccartney-outfits-for-ringo\/\" target=\"_blank\">Ringo Starr<\/a>&#8216;s show whenever he&#8217;s in town, so I got tickets for his October 31 concert at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kingstheatre.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Kings Theatre in Brooklyn<\/a>. I figured I&#8217;d dress the part of a Beatles fan in the &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Mod_%28subculture%29\" target=\"_blank\">Mod girl<\/a>&#8221; outfit I&#8217;d worn once before for Halloween. It wasn&#8217;t until last week that I realized <a href=\"http:\/\/wendybrandes.com\/blog\/2015\/10\/throwback-thursday-halloween-2005\/\" target=\"_blank\">I&#8217;d worn that outfit in 2005<\/a>. I <a href=\"http:\/\/wendybrandes.com\/blog\/2015\/01\/what-wendy-wore-versace-dress-from-2004-new-years-eve\/\" target=\"_blank\">do love<\/a> a <a href=\"http:\/\/wendybrandes.com\/blog\/2014\/12\/what-wendy-wore-committee-to-protect-journalists-dinner\/\" target=\"_blank\">10-year fashion anniversary<\/a>, but this one wasn&#8217;t even done deliberately!<\/p>\n<p><center><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"instagram-media\" style=\"background: #FFF; border: 0; border-radius: 3px; box-shadow: 0 0 1px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.5),0 1px 10px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.15); margin: 1px; max-width: 658px; padding: 0; width: calc(100% - 2px);\" data-instgrm-version=\"5\">\n<div style=\"padding: 8px;\">\n<div style=\"background: #F8F8F8; line-height: 0; margin-top: 40px; padding: 50.0% 0; text-align: center; width: 100%;\"><\/div>\n<p style=\"color: #c9c8cd; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 17px; margin-bottom: 0; margin-top: 8px; overflow: hidden; padding: 8px 0 7px; text-align: center; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap;\"><a style=\"color: #c9c8cd; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 17px; text-decoration: none;\" href=\"https:\/\/instagram.com\/p\/9motxRh9b7\/\" target=\"_blank\">A photo posted by Wendy Brandes (@wendybrandes)<\/a> on <time style=\"font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 17px;\" datetime=\"2015-11-03T01:08:59+00:00\">Nov 2, 2015 at 5:08pm PST<br \/>\n<\/time><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script src=\"\/\/platform.instagram.com\/en_US\/embeds.js\" async=\"\" defer=\"defer\"><\/script><\/center><br \/>\n<center><strong>What Wendy Wore<\/strong><br \/>\n<em><strong>Dress: <\/strong>Vintage Ossie Clark (purchased in London, probably in summer 2005)<br \/>\n<strong>Boots:<\/strong> Reproduction go-go boots (purchased online, probably in 2005)<br \/>\n<strong>Hat:<\/strong> Vintage &#8220;bubble&#8221; hat (purchased online, probably in 2005)<\/em><\/center><\/p>\n<p>I did change the look a bit with flower-power makeup inspired by the iconic July 1967 Vogue cover photo of Twiggy, which was shot by Richard Avedon. Somehow I didn&#8217;t know till reading <a href=\"http:\/\/onthisdayinfashion.com\/?p=2907\" target=\"_blank\">this blog post<\/a> that the stylist responsible for the flower makeup was <a href=\"http:\/\/wendybrandes.com\/blog\/2012\/02\/vintage-what-wendy-wore-2003-grammys-dress\/\" target=\"_blank\">Giorgio di Sant\u2019Angelo<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Giorgio_di_Sant'_Angelo\" target=\"_blank\">who started his own ready-to-wear clothing line the year before the cover came out<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_30798\" style=\"width: 508px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-30798\" class=\"wp-image-30798\" src=\"http:\/\/wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/vogue-1967-twiggy-photo-richard-avedon-by-diana-vreeland.jpg\" alt=\"vogue-1967-twiggy-photo-richard-avedon-by-diana-vreeland\" width=\"498\" height=\"627\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/vogue-1967-twiggy-photo-richard-avedon-by-diana-vreeland.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/vogue-1967-twiggy-photo-richard-avedon-by-diana-vreeland-238x300.jpg 238w, https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/vogue-1967-twiggy-photo-richard-avedon-by-diana-vreeland-300x378.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 498px) 100vw, 498px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-30798\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Courtesy of Vogue.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>If only I hadn&#8217;t gotten rid of a lot of button-style earrings that I wore in the 1980s! I could have matched Twiggy with those too. <a href=\"http:\/\/wendybrandes.com\/blog\/2012\/04\/dick-clark-madonna-and-my-1980s-jewelry\/\" target=\"_blank\">At least I saved the clear plastic, dangling earrings<\/a> that made me feel like &#8217;60s icon Edie Sedgwick.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-30799\" src=\"http:\/\/wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/halloween2015.1resize.jpg\" alt=\"halloween2015.1resize\" width=\"498\" height=\"747\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/halloween2015.1resize.jpg 498w, https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/halloween2015.1resize-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/halloween2015.1resize-300x450.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 498px) 100vw, 498px\" \/><strong>What Wendy Wore<\/strong><br \/>\n<em><strong>Lipstick:<\/strong> Coven by Kat Von D<\/em><br \/>\n<em><strong>Earrings:<\/strong> Original 1980s pair<\/em><br \/>\n<em><strong>Jacket:<\/strong> Stacy Lomman (<a href=\"http:\/\/wendybrandes.com\/blog\/2014\/05\/throwback-thursday-who-is-the-real-ostrich\/\" target=\"_blank\">2012<\/a>)<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">I was dismayed that several people thought my flower was a black eye. WTF. I&#8217;m saving that look for &#8220;zombie Mod girl&#8221; in 2025.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">It was easy for my designing friend <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stacylomman.com\" target=\"_blank\">Stacy Lomman<\/a> to go Mod too. <a href=\"http:\/\/wendybrandes.com\/blog\/2012\/03\/stacy-lommans-mod-mod-mod-mod-world\/\" target=\"_blank\">In 2012, she did an entire Mod collection, which included<\/a> my faux ostrich jacket, seen above.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_30800\" style=\"width: 508px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-30800\" class=\"wp-image-30800 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/mods.jpg\" alt=\"mods\" width=\"498\" height=\"866\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/mods.jpg 498w, https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/mods-173x300.jpg 173w, https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/mods-300x522.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 498px) 100vw, 498px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-30800\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">It&#8217;s a mod, mod world.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Ringo looked good, as always. He was doing jumping jacks at the end of the show, which was the last show of his three-year tour with this lineup of his <a href=\"http:\/\/wendybrandes.com\/blog\/2014\/06\/happy-birthday-to-paul-mccartney-outfits-for-ringo\/\" target=\"_blank\">All-Starr Band<\/a>. Let me point out that this man is 75!<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_30801\" style=\"width: 508px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/wendybrandes.com\/blog\/2014\/01\/for-grammy-night-six-degrees-of-ringo-starr\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-30801\" class=\"wp-image-30801 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/ringo1resize.jpg\" alt=\"ringo1resize\" width=\"498\" height=\"471\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/ringo1resize.jpg 498w, https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/ringo1resize-300x284.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 498px) 100vw, 498px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-30801\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Click to read one of my previous Ringo posts.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Two members of Bruce Springsteen&#8217;s E Street Band joined in for the last song, &#8220;With a Little Help From My Friends&#8221;: drummer <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Max_Weinberg\" target=\"_blank\">Max Weinberg<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/StevieVanZandt\" target=\"_blank\">Stevie Van Zandt<\/a>. A couple of days before, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.genesis-publications.com\/News\/An-All-Starr-Interview-with-Steven-Van-Zandt\/2710\" target=\"_blank\">Little Steven had interviewed Ringo at the Strand Bookstore<\/a>. I would have gone if I had known about it.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_30802\" style=\"width: 508px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-30802\" class=\"size-full wp-image-30802\" src=\"http:\/\/wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/ringo2resize.jpg\" alt=\"Stevie and Ringo at Kings Theatre.\" width=\"498\" height=\"494\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/ringo2resize.jpg 498w, https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/ringo2resize-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/ringo2resize-300x298.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 498px) 100vw, 498px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-30802\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Stevie and Ringo at Kings Theatre.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Rolling Stone had a great story on Ringo in April. Read it<a href=\"http:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/features\/being-ringo-star-beatles-cover-story-20150415\" target=\"_blank\"> here<\/a>. And here&#8217;s a little clip of Ringo looking bouncy during the final number.<\/p>\n<p><center><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"instagram-media\" data-instgrm-captioned data-instgrm-version=\"5\" style=\" background:#FFF; border:0; border-radius:3px; box-shadow:0 0 1px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.5),0 1px 10px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.15); margin: 1px; max-width:658px; padding:0; width:99.375%; width:-webkit-calc(100% - 2px); width:calc(100% - 2px);\">\n<div style=\"padding:8px;\">\n<div style=\" background:#F8F8F8; line-height:0; margin-top:40px; padding:50.0% 0; text-align:center; width:100%;\">\n<div style=\" background:url(data:image\/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAACwAAAAsCAMAAAApWqozAAAAGFBMVEUiIiI9PT0eHh4gIB4hIBkcHBwcHBwcHBydr+JQAAAACHRSTlMABA4YHyQsM5jtaMwAAADfSURBVDjL7ZVBEgMhCAQBAf\/\/42xcNbpAqakcM0ftUmFAAIBE81IqBJdS3lS6zs3bIpB9WED3YYXFPmHRfT8sgyrCP1x8uEUxLMzNWElFOYCV6mHWWwMzdPEKHlhLw7NWJqkHc4uIZphavDzA2JPzUDsBZziNae2S6owH8xPmX8G7zzgKEOPUoYHvGz1TBCxMkd3kwNVbU0gKHkx+iZILf77IofhrY1nYFnB\/lQPb79drWOyJVa\/DAvg9B\/rLB4cC+Nqgdz\/TvBbBnr6GBReqn\/nRmDgaQEej7WhonozjF+Y2I\/fZou\/qAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC); display:block; height:44px; margin:0 auto -44px; position:relative; top:-22px; width:44px;\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p style=\" margin:8px 0 0 0; padding:0 4px;\"> <a href=\"https:\/\/instagram.com\/p\/9i94Vkh9QP\/\" style=\" color:#000; font-family:Arial,sans-serif; font-size:14px; font-style:normal; font-weight:normal; line-height:17px; text-decoration:none; word-wrap:break-word;\" target=\"_blank\">Ringo gets by with a little help from his friends #ringo #ringostarr #latergram #concert #music #beatles #fab4 #kingstheaterbrooklyn<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\" color:#c9c8cd; font-family:Arial,sans-serif; font-size:14px; line-height:17px; margin-bottom:0; margin-top:8px; overflow:hidden; padding:8px 0 7px; text-align:center; text-overflow:ellipsis; white-space:nowrap;\">A video posted by Wendy Brandes (@wendybrandes) on <time style=\" font-family:Arial,sans-serif; font-size:14px; line-height:17px;\" datetime=\"2015-11-01T14:56:58+00:00\">Nov 1, 2015 at 6:56am PST<\/time><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async defer src=\"\/\/platform.instagram.com\/en_US\/embeds.js\"><\/script><\/center><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s good to be Ringo! <\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I like to catch Ringo Starr&#8216;s show whenever he&#8217;s in town, so I got tickets for his October 31 concert at Kings Theatre in Brooklyn. I figured I&#8217;d dress the part of a Beatles fan in the &#8220;Mod girl&#8221; outfit I&#8217;d worn once before for Halloween. It wasn&#8217;t until last week that I realized I&#8217;d&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/2015\/11\/what-wendy-wore-halloween-with-ringo-starr\/\">Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":30798,"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":[36,581,150,116,42,496,48,277,41,593,40,497],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-30792","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-beatles","8":"category-concerts","9":"category-magazines","10":"category-makeup","11":"category-music","12":"category-on-the-town","13":"category-ossie-clark","14":"category-outfit-post","15":"category-pictures-of-me","16":"category-stacy-lomman","17":"category-vintage","18":"category-what-wendy-wore","19":"entry"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30792","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=30792"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30792\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30811,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30792\/revisions\/30811"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30798"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30792"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30792"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30792"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}