{"id":34189,"date":"2016-09-22T18:32:16","date_gmt":"2016-09-22T22:32:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wendybrandes.com\/blog\/?p=34189"},"modified":"2016-09-22T18:32:16","modified_gmt":"2016-09-22T22:32:16","slug":"first-day-of-fall-last-dresses-of-summer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/2016\/09\/first-day-of-fall-last-dresses-of-summer\/","title":{"rendered":"First Day of Fall, Last Dresses of Summer"},"content":{"rendered":"

Every year, as fall approaches, I realize I haven’t worn all my summer dresses. I raced to squeeze in a few of them recently. <\/p>\n

For a nonprofit organization’s cocktail party and dinner, I wore a JC de Castelbajac dress that I bought in Paris in 2013.<\/p>\n

\"sept2016knightdressresize\"What Wendy Wore<\/strong>
\nDress (with pockets!):<\/strong> JC de Castelbajac<\/a> (2013<\/a>)<\/em>
\nShoes:<\/strong> Prada (2010)
\nPurse:<\/strong> Louis Vuitton Alma in Epi (2001)<\/em><\/p>\n

I’m sad that the Castelbajac store in Paris closed. The one in London closed a while ago. I browse Castelbajac designs online, but, for me, it’s not the same as trying on everything in the store. I would never have bought this dress online. I almost passed it up in the store but as I was paying for another purchase, I said, “I have to try that one on.” And I loved it. Here’s a now-and-then photo of it. I’m wearing the same shoes both times!<\/p>\n

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Click for the 2013 post.<\/p><\/div>\n

For a family dinner, I wore my lip-print Prada dress from 2012.<\/p>\n

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What Wendy Wore<\/strong>
\nDress:<\/strong> Prada (2012)<\/em>
\nShoes:<\/strong> Prada (possibly 2004)<\/em>
\nPurse:<\/strong> Louis Vuitton Alma in Epi (2001)<\/em><\/p>\n

My designing friend Stacy Lomman has been helping me organize my closet. The new shoe rack she chose for me put those satin shoes in easy reach so I wore them for the first time in ages.\u00a0 I am guessing that I got them in 2004, because I have a vague memory of wearing them with my sex-ay Pilgrim dress to the Committee to Protect Journalists dinner that year<\/a>. Thanks to Stacy, my “repeat offender” collage isn’t a total repeat — different black shoes!<\/p>\n

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

My other designing friend, Zang Toi, had his Spring 2017 runway show last week. I was naughty and didn’t wear one of my Zang dresses because I was so determined to wear my Castelbajac Lego outfit somewhere.<\/p>\n

\"zangtoilegodressresize\"What Wendy Wore<\/strong>
\nDress:<\/strong> JC de Castelbajac (2009, Paris<\/a>)<\/em>
\nShoes<\/strong>: JC de Castelbajac (2009, London<\/a>)<\/em>
\nPurse:<\/strong> Louis Vuitton Alma in Epi (2001)<\/em><\/p>\n

The dress hasn’t faded since 2009. That’s just the lighting.<\/p>\n

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Click for my 2009 post about the shoes, which were my first Castelbajac purchase.<\/p><\/div>\n

Zang’s show was beautiful, as usual.<\/p>\n