{"id":36193,"date":"2017-05-09T14:07:06","date_gmt":"2017-05-09T18:07:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wendybrandes.com\/blog\/?p=36193"},"modified":"2017-05-09T15:32:31","modified_gmt":"2017-05-09T19:32:31","slug":"what-wendy-wore-a-little-black-dress-from-1989","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/2017\/05\/what-wendy-wore-a-little-black-dress-from-1989\/","title":{"rendered":"What Wendy Wore: A Little Black Dress From 1989"},"content":{"rendered":"

As promised<\/a>, here’s another one of Eryn’s fancy outfit photo shoots.\u00a0 The centerpiece is the shiny, black cocktail dress I wore to my 1989 college graduation dance. I found the dress hanging around my parents’ house in 2013<\/a>. At the time, I figured I would to ask Jean from Ghost Tailor<\/a> if she could let it out at the top in order to give me some breathing room. She was successful! Here’s how the dress looks now.<\/p>\n

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Like the sign in the photo above says, there’s only one way to wear this dress, and that’s with tall boots and a sense of humor.<\/p>\n

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I’m keeping this dress for sentimental reasons. Normally, I don’t like to keep clothes that I’m not going to wear, but there are definitely exceptions to the rule and this is one of them. I have so few of my original clothes left from the ’80s. Who knows … it might make a good Halloween costume some day.<\/p>\n

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Oh, and here’s how the dress looked in 1989.<\/p>\n

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This tiny picture is the best I can offer from ’89.<\/p><\/div>\n

Come back tomorrow for a YouTube video in which I talk about the dress and other components of this just-for-a-photo-shoot look.<\/p>\n

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It’s funny to take photos in NYC until a big truck rolls up on you!<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

As promised, here’s another one of Eryn’s fancy outfit photo shoots.\u00a0 The centerpiece is the shiny, black cocktail dress I wore to my 1989 college graduation dance. I found the dress hanging around my parents’ house in 2013. At the time, I figured I would to ask Jean from Ghost Tailor if she could let…<\/p>\n

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