{"id":30912,"date":"2015-11-17T23:59:08","date_gmt":"2015-11-18T04:59:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wendybrandes.com\/blog\/?p=30912"},"modified":"2015-11-18T00:15:33","modified_gmt":"2015-11-18T05:15:33","slug":"what-wendy-wore-style-forever-by-alyson-walsh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/2015\/11\/what-wendy-wore-style-forever-by-alyson-walsh\/","title":{"rendered":"What Wendy Wore: Style Forever by Alyson Walsh"},"content":{"rendered":"

My gorgeous British friend Alyson Walsh<\/a> came to New York to celebrate the U.S. publication of her book<\/a> Style Forever<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Click to purchase.<\/p><\/div>\n

We toasted her with Moet & Chandon Champagne at the Michele Varian shop<\/a> in Soho.<\/span><\/p>\n

The subtitle of Aly’s book is “The Grown-Up Guide to Looking Fabulous,” and the guests lived up to it! I loved Carol Markel’s colorful outfit from the top of her red hat to the pointy, purple tip of her toe.<\/p>\n

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Carol, an artist and a milliner, blogs at Femme et Fleur<\/a>.<\/p>\n

I was also enthralled with the dotted headpiece worn by Valerie, one of the bloggers at Idiosyncratic Fashionistas<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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The motto on her oversize business card reads: “Setting a bad, bad example for older women everywhere.”<\/p>\n

I wore my JC de Castelbajac dress with the razors\/safety pin\/brass knuckles\/you-name-it embroidery.<\/p>\n

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What Wendy Wore<\/strong>
\nDress:<\/strong> Castelbajac (2014<\/a>)<\/em>
\nShoes:<\/strong> Vivienne Westwood animal-toe shoes (2011<\/a>)<\/em>
\nPurse:<\/strong> Prada (2007)<\/em><\/p>\n

Aly and I were both wearing silver shoes. The footwear didn’t make it into this photo of us together …<\/p>\n

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… so our shoes get their own picture!<\/p>\n

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Ha! I like the way this photo combo makes us look really long.<\/p>\n

Style Forever<\/em> will be a great holiday gift for the the 40s-and-up fashionistas in your life. Order now<\/a>! <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

My gorgeous British friend Alyson Walsh came to New York to celebrate the U.S. publication of her book Style Forever. We toasted her with Moet & Chandon Champagne at the Michele Varian shop in Soho. The subtitle of Aly’s book is “The Grown-Up Guide to Looking Fabulous,” and the guests lived up to it! I…<\/p>\n

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