{"id":31491,"date":"2016-08-28T20:01:20","date_gmt":"2016-08-29T00:01:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wendybrandes.com\/blog\/?p=31491"},"modified":"2016-08-28T20:39:54","modified_gmt":"2016-08-29T00:39:54","slug":"what-wendy-wore-surprising-2006-vmas-throwback","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/2016\/08\/what-wendy-wore-surprising-2006-vmas-throwback\/","title":{"rendered":"What Wendy Wore: Surprising 2006 VMAs Throwback"},"content":{"rendered":"

The MTV Video Music Awards are tonight, so it’s a good time for this surprising (to me) throwback photo. Here I am in my 2006 VMAs outfit, holding my VMAs Moonman party favor.<\/p>\n

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After the 2006 MTV VMAs.<\/p><\/div>\n

I came upon this photo earlier this year while I was browsing through 2006 pictures for a different throwback post. I was confused because I had no memory of attending the VMAs in 2006, but I was sure I wore this Plein Sud dress to the VMAs in 2003. I figured I had put a 2003 photo into the wrong folder, but when I checked the data, this picture had, indeed, been taken on Aug. 31, 2006<\/a>.<\/p>\n

I still didn’t believe my eyes, so I looked up my 2003 VMAs photo<\/a>. The different hairstyle and different Moonman souvenir proves that the silver-dress photos are from two different years.<\/p>\n

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2003. Click for original post.<\/p><\/div>\n

This means my habit of wearing the same outfits<\/a> to the same events<\/a> — years apart — started longer ago that I thought.<\/p>\n

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A little closer up in 2006 … still wearing the wristband required for entry.<\/p><\/div>\n

While that was interesting, I was concerned that even after I read this description of the 2006 awards<\/a>, I couldn’t conjure up a single memory of being there. Meanwhile, my memories of 2003 — the show on which Madonna kissed Britney Spears and Christina Aguilera — are vivid. Finally, I looked up some specific 2006 performances and was relieved that Beyonce’s “Ring the Alarm” costume rang a bell<\/a>. I remember loving that trench-coat-and-boots look. And I do remember Shakira’s whole performance of “Hips Don’t Lie.<\/a>” I was obsessed with that song and Shakira’s dance moves. Whew<\/a>!<\/p>\n

UPDATED TO ADD: I found my tickets from 2006!<\/p>\n

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The MTV Video Music Awards are tonight, so it’s a good time for this surprising (to me) throwback photo. Here I am in my 2006 VMAs outfit, holding my VMAs Moonman party favor. I came upon this photo earlier this year while I was browsing through 2006 pictures for a different throwback post. I was…<\/p>\n

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