{"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":"<p>My gorgeous British friend <a href=\"http:\/\/wendybrandes.com\/blog\/2015\/08\/wanderlust-2015-what-wendy-wore-in-paris\/\" target=\"_blank\">Alyson Walsh<\/a> came to New York to celebrate the <a href=\"http:\/\/wendybrandes.com\/blog\/2015\/08\/wanderlust-2015-london-bath-and-alexander-mcqueen\/\" target=\"_blank\">U.S. publication of her book<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Style-Forever-Grown-Up-Looking-Fabulous\/dp\/1784880000\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Style Forever<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_30913\" style=\"width: 485px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Style-Forever-Grown-Up-Looking-Fabulous\/dp\/1784880000\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-30913\" class=\"size-full wp-image-30913\" src=\"http:\/\/wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/book.jpg\" alt=\"Click to purchase.\" width=\"475\" height=\"633\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/book.jpg 475w, https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/book-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/book-300x400.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 475px) 100vw, 475px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-30913\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Click to purchase.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>We toasted her with <span class=\"st\">Moet &amp; Chandon Champagne at the <a href=\"http:\/\/michelevarian.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Michele Varian shop<\/a> in Soho.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>The subtitle of Aly&#8217;s book is &#8220;The Grown-Up Guide to Looking Fabulous,&#8221; and the guests lived up to it! I loved Carol Markel&#8217;s colorful outfit from the top of her red hat to the pointy, purple tip of her toe.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-30914\" src=\"http:\/\/wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/carol.jpg\" alt=\"carol\" width=\"498\" height=\"747\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/carol.jpg 498w, https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/carol-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/carol-300x450.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 498px) 100vw, 498px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Carol, an artist and a milliner, blogs at <a href=\"http:\/\/femmeetfleur.blogspot.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Femme et Fleur<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I was also enthralled with the dotted headpiece worn by Valerie, one of the bloggers at <a href=\"http:\/\/idiosyncraticfashionistas.blogspot.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Idiosyncratic Fashionistas<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-30915\" src=\"http:\/\/wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/valerie.jpg\" alt=\"valerie\" width=\"498\" height=\"744\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/valerie.jpg 498w, https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/valerie-201x300.jpg 201w, https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/valerie-300x448.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 498px) 100vw, 498px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The motto on her oversize business card reads: &#8220;Setting a bad, bad example for older women everywhere.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I wore my JC de Castelbajac dress with the razors\/safety pin\/brass knuckles\/you-name-it embroidery.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-30919\" src=\"http:\/\/wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/castel1.jpg\" alt=\"castel\" width=\"498\" height=\"981\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/castel1.jpg 498w, https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/castel1-152x300.jpg 152w, https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/castel1-300x591.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 498px) 100vw, 498px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>What Wendy Wore<\/strong><br \/>\n<em><strong>Dress:<\/strong> Castelbajac (<a href=\"http:\/\/wendybrandes.com\/blog\/2014\/10\/what-wendy-wore-shawn-loves-play-barbarabs-birthday\/\" target=\"_blank\">2014<\/a>)<\/em><br \/>\n<em><strong>Shoes:<\/strong> Vivienne Westwood animal-toe shoes (<a href=\"http:\/\/wendybrandes.com\/blog\/2011\/11\/never-is-the-next-new-thing%E2%84%A2-animal-toe-shoes\/\" target=\"_blank\">2011<\/a>)<\/em><br \/>\n<em><strong>Purse:<\/strong> Prada (2007)<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Aly and I were both wearing silver shoes. The footwear didn&#8217;t make it into this photo of us together &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-30921\" src=\"http:\/\/wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/wendyalycrop.jpg\" alt=\"wendyalycrop\" width=\"498\" height=\"822\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/wendyalycrop.jpg 498w, https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/wendyalycrop-182x300.jpg 182w, https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/wendyalycrop-300x495.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 498px) 100vw, 498px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&#8230; so our shoes get their own picture!<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-30922\" src=\"http:\/\/wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/shoes.jpg\" alt=\"shoes\" width=\"498\" height=\"227\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/shoes.jpg 498w, https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/shoes-300x137.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 498px) 100vw, 498px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Ha! I like the way this photo combo makes us look really long.<\/p>\n<p><em>Style Forever<\/em> will be a great holiday gift for the the 40s-and-up fashionistas in your life. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Style-Forever-Grown-Up-Looking-Fabulous\/dp\/1784880000\" target=\"_blank\">Order now<\/a>!  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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 &amp; Chandon Champagne at the Michele Varian shop in Soho. The subtitle of Aly&#8217;s book is &#8220;The Grown-Up Guide to Looking Fabulous,&#8221; and the guests lived up to it! I&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/2015\/11\/what-wendy-wore-style-forever-by-alyson-walsh\/\">Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":30913,"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":[12,571,83,277,41,497],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-30912","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-blogs-and-bloggers","8":"category-castelbajac-2","9":"category-gorgeous-friends","10":"category-outfit-post","11":"category-pictures-of-me","12":"category-what-wendy-wore","13":"entry"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30912","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=30912"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30912\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30926,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30912\/revisions\/30926"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30913"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30912"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30912"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30912"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}