{"id":36712,"date":"2017-06-19T09:30:54","date_gmt":"2017-06-19T13:30:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wendybrandes.com\/blog\/?p=36712"},"modified":"2017-06-11T17:01:32","modified_gmt":"2017-06-11T21:01:32","slug":"shopping-my-closet-for-a-square-bag","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/2017\/06\/shopping-my-closet-for-a-square-bag\/","title":{"rendered":"Shopping My Closet for a Square Bag"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Shout out to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thecut.com\/2017\/06\/moynat-bag-square-mini-vanity.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">New York Magazine<\/a> for alerting me to this square bag by Moynat.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_36713\" style=\"width: 509px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.moynat.com\/en\/product\/mini-vanity-en\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-36713\" class=\"wp-image-36713 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/square.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"499\" height=\"521\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/square.jpg 499w, https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/square-287x300.jpg 287w, https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/square-300x313.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 499px) 100vw, 499px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-36713\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Click for website.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>I&#8217;ve been inspired to dust off my old square bag by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gracieopulanza.com\/muxart-barcelonas-shoe-designer-to-watch-out-for\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Muxart<\/a>. (Isn&#8217;t it odd that the brand names are so close?)<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_36714\" style=\"width: 508px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-36714\" class=\"wp-image-36714 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/square1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"498\" height=\"518\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/square1.jpg 498w, https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/square1-288x300.jpg 288w, https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/square1-300x312.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 498px) 100vw, 498px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-36714\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Bag by Muxart.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>It was never as glamorous as the Moynat bag and it&#8217;s a little the worse for wear now, but it is adequate. Also, it doesn&#8217;t cost $3,600 like the Moynat bag. (You could get <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/store\/products.php?product=Clemence-Ring-%252d-Black-Spinel\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">a limited-edition, 18K gold ring<\/a> for not much more than that.)\u00a0 The Muxart bag is one of my <a href=\"http:\/\/wendybrandes.com\/blog\/2017\/06\/what-wendy-wore-windowpane-ossie-clark-dress\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">pre-blog acquisitions<\/a>, so I&#8217;m not sure of its history. I suspect I got it at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.henribendel.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Henri Bendel<\/a> in the early 2000s, but I wouldn&#8217;t swear to it. No matter what, this bag qualifies as <a href=\"http:\/\/wendybrandes.com\/blog\/2014\/12\/what-wendy-wore-homegrown-vintage\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">homegrown vintage<\/a>. Of that, I&#8217;m sure!  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Shout out to New York Magazine for alerting me to this square bag by Moynat. I&#8217;ve been inspired to dust off my old square bag by Muxart. (Isn&#8217;t it odd that the brand names are so close?) It was never as glamorous as the Moynat bag and it&#8217;s a little the worse for wear now,&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/2017\/06\/shopping-my-closet-for-a-square-bag\/\">Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":36713,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1,544,26,663],"tags":[1306,1305],"class_list":["post-36712","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-uncategorized","category-fashion-repeats-itself","category-handbags","category-purses","tag-homegrown-vintage","tag-slow-fashion","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36712","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36712"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36712\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36717,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36712\/revisions\/36717"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/36713"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36712"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36712"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36712"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}