{"id":36370,"date":"2017-05-16T20:00:22","date_gmt":"2017-05-17T00:00:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wendybrandes.com\/blog\/?p=36370"},"modified":"2017-05-16T20:31:44","modified_gmt":"2017-05-17T00:31:44","slug":"what-wendy-wore-80s-inspired-mesh-and-jeggings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/2017\/05\/what-wendy-wore-80s-inspired-mesh-and-jeggings\/","title":{"rendered":"What Wendy Wore: ’80s-Inspired Mesh and Jeggings"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’ve got a new YouTube<\/a> video coming out tomorrow, for which I wore a 1980s-inspired outfit. Because you can’t see the head-to-toe look in the video, my right-hand woman Eryn took this full-length photo.<\/p>\n

\"\"What Wendy Wore<\/strong>
\nMesh jacket: <\/strong>God Save LA (2013, inspired by Madonna and previously seen here<\/a>)<\/em>
\nT-shirt:<\/strong> Splendid<\/em>
\nJeggings:<\/strong> J. Brand (2010-ish? Previously seen here<\/a>)<\/em>
\nBelt:<\/strong> Purchased from Bluefly (2016<\/a>)<\/em>
\nImitation Keith Haring clutch:<\/strong> Patricia Field (2015<\/a>)<\/em>
\nBoots:<\/strong> Celine (pre-2007<\/a>)
\nEarrings:<\/strong> Originals from the 1980s <\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

Here’s a closer look at the clutch and those “homegrown vintage” boots. Can you believe those are more than 10 years old and still going strong?<\/p>\n

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I’m also wearing my own 18K gold, barbed-wire, full-finger ring design in this photo.<\/p><\/div>\n

In the video, I talk some more about the 1980s looks that I still love. (I never get tired of that subject<\/a>!) But I don’t mention one style that I don’t care for, which is the modern interpretation of skinny jeans, including the “jeggings” I was wearing during the video.<\/p>\n

It’s surprising that I don’t like today’s skinny jeans considering that I spent the ’80s obsessed with super-tight dark jeans imported from England and black leggings<\/a>. I was also a fan of Guess cropped, ankle-zip jeans that were on the skinny side, as well as narrow stirrup pants.<\/p>\n

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Wearing my Danskin leggings in Amsterdam in 1989. Click for original post.<\/p><\/div>\n

During the first decade of the <\/a>2000s<\/a>, when the only jeans to be found were low-rise and boot-cut<\/a>, I desperately <\/a>wanted<\/a> what I thought of as <\/a>skinny jeans<\/a>. I had only one pair of jeans for years because I was so not into the Frankie B look<\/a>. Eventually, I discovered Acne’s Hex style <\/a>in 2007. Those were the perfect skinny jeans for me.<\/p>\n

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Wearing my Acne jeans in 2007. Click for original post.<\/p><\/div>\n

In 2017, though, my 2007 Acne jeans style would be more likely to be considered “straight-leg” instead of “skinny. “Skinny” has come to mean a skin-tight, leggings-like fit (leading to the awful portmanteau of “jeggings”), and that doesn’t appeal to me at all.\u00a0 I don’t mind skinny jeans on other people, obviously; I just don’t want to wear them myself. The only reason I have my one pair of J. Brand jeggings is because I was planning to wear them as part of an Adam Ant Halloween costume<\/a>. I still tend to wear the jeggings when I’m trying to look costume-y.<\/a> Other than that, I prefer straight-leg and boyfriend-cut jeans, plus I’ve been keeping an eye out for flares and wide legs that might work.<\/p>\n

I’m a bit mystified by this personal fashion “don’t”: Maybe I overdosed on leggings in the 1980s? Whatever the reason, this covers what I don’t talk about in tomorrow’s video. Make sure you subscribe so you can find out what I do<\/em> talk about!<\/p>\n

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I’ve got a new YouTube video coming out tomorrow, for which I wore a 1980s-inspired outfit. Because you can’t see the head-to-toe look in the video, my right-hand woman Eryn took this full-length photo. What Wendy Wore Mesh jacket: God Save LA (2013, inspired by Madonna and previously seen here) T-shirt: Splendid Jeggings: J. Brand…<\/p>\n

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