{"id":36687,"date":"2017-06-13T08:30:09","date_gmt":"2017-06-13T12:30:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wendybrandes.com\/blog\/?p=36687"},"modified":"2017-06-12T19:13:42","modified_gmt":"2017-06-12T23:13:42","slug":"what-wendy-wore-windowpane-ossie-clark-dress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/2017\/06\/what-wendy-wore-windowpane-ossie-clark-dress\/","title":{"rendered":"What Wendy Wore: “Windowpane” Ossie Clark Dress"},"content":{"rendered":"

I time-traveled to 2008 while getting dressed for a friend’s cocktail party last month.<\/p>\n

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\nDress:<\/strong> Ossie Clark (purchased from eBay in 2008, first seen here<\/a>)<\/em>
\nBoots:<\/strong> Prada (2008, probably first seen here<\/a>)<\/em><\/p>\n

I didn’t realize that I had acquired my entire outfit — the vintage Ossie Clark<\/a> dress and the Prada boots — in 2008 until I was doing the caption for the photo above. And there’s my answer for the people who ask me how I “remember” when I got clothes or shoes: I don’t! I look up the dates on my blog. If I got something before I started my blog in July 2007, there might not be a photographic record of it, and that’s why I label some items “pre-2007.” That happens the most with shoes because — while there might be photos showing at least part of a dress or outfit — I didn’t go out of my way to take head-to-toe photos unless I was dressed for a fancy event.<\/p>\n

Last month’s cocktail party wasn’t a fancy event, but it was an emotional one.\u00a0 My friend Laura<\/a> was honoring the doctor who saved her life after she was diagnosed with leukemia 26 years ago. The brother who donated bone marrow for her transplant was also there.\u00a0 He’s a Marine, so that’s some extra-tough bone marrow.\u00a0 Laura says she swears and spits more since getting that marrow, but, to be honest, she was pretty damn tough before she joined the Marines. I know because I worked at the Wall Street Journal with her and she scared me to death back then!<\/p>\n

As for my party outfit, I used to think of this as my “kaleidoscope” Ossie, but there are swatches of a windowpane check<\/a> in the pattern, so now its my “windowpane” Ossie.<\/p>\n

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Click to see a photo of another Ossie Clark dress with a different sort of capelet effect.<\/p><\/div>\n

My favorite part of this dress is the extravagant sleeve.<\/p>\n

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I’m wearing a windowpane dress and standing by a windowpane. That was not intentional.<\/p><\/div>\n

Like a lot of Ossie Clark designs, this dress has a self-belt …<\/p>\n

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… and covered buttons.<\/p>\n

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I like this dress style so much that I bought a second one in a different color\/pattern, which you can see here<\/a> and here<\/a>. To be honest, I didn’t expect the low bid I put in on eBay to win. I do miss the days when eBay was the best source of vintage clothes online. I would scour the site constantly, even though I had alerts set up for my favorite designers. It was like a constant treasure hunt. Nowadays, if I’m looking for something particular, I look all over teh Internets<\/a> before remembering that eBay is a possibility.<\/p>\n

There are two other fun facts about this dress. First, Quorum<\/a>, the boutique that sold it, helpfully tagged the dress with its dry-cleaner recommendation.<\/p>\n

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The tag inside the dress.<\/p><\/div>\n

Second, my gorgeous British blogger friend Sharon — who has been blogging almost as long as I have<\/a> — was the one who pointed out the dress to me on eBay. Thanks again, Sharon! And happy birthday to you, one day late. Drink some Pimm’s<\/a> for me.<\/p>\n

You will see me wearing this the windowpane dress in tomorrow’s YouTube video, in which I answer some frequently asked questions about vintage clothes. Subscribe to my channel so you don’t miss it.<\/p>\n

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Till then, I’ll be listening to “Love the Way You Lie”<\/a> because I’ve got the lyrics, “Now you get to watch her leave out the window\/ Guess that’s why they call it window pane” stuck in my head.<\/p>\n