{"id":34464,"date":"2016-10-20T07:30:06","date_gmt":"2016-10-20T11:30:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wendybrandes.com\/blog\/?p=34464"},"modified":"2016-10-20T07:30:06","modified_gmt":"2016-10-20T11:30:06","slug":"throwback-thursday-versace-skirt-with-staying-power","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/2016\/10\/throwback-thursday-versace-skirt-with-staying-power\/","title":{"rendered":"Throwback Thursday: Versace Skirt With Staying Power"},"content":{"rendered":"

Nine years ago — minus just one day! — I published a post called, “Why Does Buyer’s Guilt Focus on Fashion?<\/a>” In it, I wrote:<\/p>\n

“I\u2019m always annoyed at how a fashion is incorrectly perceived as a woman\u2019s topic, and therefore trivialized and criticized. We\u2019re told we should feel bad about it even though men can pour their money into technology and sports-related consumerism guilt-free. Yet, food, clothing and shelter are the most basic of human needs. Do you see the iPhone on that list of basic needs? No.”<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I went on to describe the many ways that fashion affects society. (Somehow, I did that without mentioning that the global apparel market is valued by a number of sources at over a trillion dollars annually.) While on the topic, I wrote about how I like to keep my clothes forever, a quality which made me very anxious when I bought a short skirt that I thought might be inappropriate to wear at age 45. At the time of the purchase, I was 35. What can I say? I like to get a full 10 years of use out of my clothes.<\/p>\n

Luckily, my thoughts about “inappropriate” changed. (Leaving the uptight investment banking world helped. So did starting this blog with my original motto of “Wear What You Want.”) As a result, the skirt has lasted the decade I demanded of it, and then some. It is this chartreuse Versace, seen here in 2011.<\/p>\n

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2011. Click for original post.<\/p><\/div>\n

The following year, my designing friend Stacy Lomman paired the skirt with one of my vintage Ossie Clark tops.<\/p>\n

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2012. Click for original post.<\/p><\/div>\n

I really liked that combination, because I wore it the exact same way in 2013.<\/p>\n

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

I mean … I really, REALLY liked that combo, because I wore it again a few days ago.<\/p>\n

\"wiw\"What Wendy Wore<\/strong>
\nTop:<\/strong> Vintage Ossie Clark (Not sure when I bought this, but I have a photo of it from 2008<\/a>)<\/em>
\nSkirt:<\/strong> (Versace, 2003. Previously seen here<\/a>)<\/em>
\nBoots:<\/strong> Prada (2008)
\nPurse<\/strong>: Prada (2007<\/a>)
\nWeird monster thing hanging from purse:<\/strong> Fendi (2015)<\/em><\/p>\n

Last week, I didn’t realize I’d repeated the complete look — right down to the boots — until I checked the blog.\u00a0 I laughed a little about that. And check out how my one pose<\/a> is repeated year after year. I’m a paper doll!<\/p>\n

Anyway, I tried to imagine wearing this skirt in another<\/em> 10 years and at first I thought, “That’s impossible.” But then I realized a skirt doesn’t have to be a skirt if you don’t want it to be. Maybe in another decade,\u00a0 I’ll be wearing this skirt as a head wrap \u00e0 la Little Edie Beale.<\/a> Whatever … I do what I want<\/a>! <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Nine years ago — minus just one day! — I published a post called, “Why Does Buyer’s Guilt Focus on Fashion?” In it, I wrote: “I\u2019m always annoyed at how a fashion is incorrectly perceived as a woman\u2019s topic, and therefore trivialized and criticized. We\u2019re told we should feel bad about it even though men…<\/p>\n

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