{"id":33044,"date":"2016-06-09T23:43:12","date_gmt":"2016-06-10T03:43:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wendybrandes.com\/blog\/?p=33044"},"modified":"2019-04-11T23:40:23","modified_gmt":"2019-04-12T03:40:23","slug":"throwback-thursday-ossie-clarks-birthday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/2016\/06\/throwback-thursday-ossie-clarks-birthday\/","title":{"rendered":"Throwback Thursday: Ossie Clark&#8217;s Birthday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thank you to vintage-fashion expert Liz of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vintage-a-peel.co.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Vintage-a-Peel<\/a> for pointing out that June 9 is the late Ossie Clark&#8217;s birthday. Ossie would have been 74 today. Tragically, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/1996\/08\/12\/world\/ossie-clark-54-icon-of-60-s-british-designer-defined-mod.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ossie was only 54 when he was murdered in August 1996<\/a> by an ex-boyfriend.<\/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-captioned=\"\" data-instgrm-version=\"7\">\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=\"margin: 8px 0 0 0; padding: 0 4px;\"><a 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;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/BGbunlttdSZ\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ossie Clark talking to Bernard Braden in 1968. Ossie was born on this day in 1942. #OssieClark #bernardbraden #1960s #charlottemartin<\/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 Liz Eggleston (@misspeelpants) on <time style=\"font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 17px;\" datetime=\"2016-06-09T12:11:28+00:00\">Jun 9, 2016 at 5:11am PDT<\/time><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script src=\"\/\/platform.instagram.com\/en_US\/embeds.js\" async=\"\" defer=\"defer\"><\/script><\/center><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/wendybrandes.com\/blog\/category\/ossie-clark\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ossie has been a big favorite of mine for a long time<\/a>. I first wrote about him <a href=\"http:\/\/wendybrandes.com\/blog\/2007\/08\/great-minds-think-alikeabout-ossie-clark\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">just a month after I started my blog in 2007<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>In honor of Ossie and Liz, here is a <a href=\"http:\/\/wendybrandes.com\/blog\/2010\/05\/what-wendy-wore-encounters-with-bad-samaritans\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">2010 throwback photo of an Ossie dress I bought from Vintage-a-Peel in 2009<\/a>, paired <a href=\"http:\/\/wendybrandes.com\/blog\/2016\/04\/what-wendy-wore-ossie-clark-to-see-shakespeare\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">with a photo of the same dress worn this year<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><center><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/ossiecollage-768x567-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"768\" height=\"567\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-42288\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/ossiecollage-768x567-1.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/ossiecollage-768x567-1-300x221.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Now I&#8217;m inspired to wear one of my Ossies out to dinner this weekend. The question is &#8230; which one?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thank you to vintage-fashion expert Liz of Vintage-a-Peel for pointing out that June 9 is the late Ossie Clark&#8217;s birthday. Ossie would have been 74 today. Tragically, Ossie was only 54 when he was murdered in August 1996 by an ex-boyfriend. Ossie Clark talking to Bernard Braden in 1968. Ossie was born on this day&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/2016\/06\/throwback-thursday-ossie-clarks-birthday\/\">Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":33047,"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":[48,607],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-33044","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ossie-clark","8":"category-throwback-thursday","9":"entry"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33044","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=33044"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33044\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42289,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33044\/revisions\/42289"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33047"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33044"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33044"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33044"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}