{"id":42092,"date":"2019-03-21T23:58:35","date_gmt":"2019-03-22T03:58:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/?p=42092"},"modified":"2019-03-22T00:27:27","modified_gmt":"2019-03-22T04:27:27","slug":"throwback-thursday-og-bloggers-and-leopard-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/2019\/03\/throwback-thursday-og-bloggers-and-leopard-week\/","title":{"rendered":"Throwback Thursday: OG Bloggers and Leopard Week"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’m so thankful that a few other “original gangster<\/a>” fashion bloggers are still blogging away, just like me. I share a decade-long history with people like Judith from Style Crone<\/a> and Sheila from Ephemera<\/a>. Those mutual memories are treasures, as illustrated by Sheila after she watched my recent video about designer Patrick Kelly<\/a><\/p>\n

The video included my 2008 appearance on WWD’s worst-dressed page, clad in a leopard-print Kelly dress …<\/p>\n

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Click for original 2008 post.<\/p><\/div>\n

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… and Sheila reminded me that in 2011, she’d invited bloggers to show her wearing their leopard print, and dedicated the post to me, the self-proclaimed “Queen of Leopard.”<\/p>\n

CLICK HERE FOR SHEILA’S ORIGINAL POST<\/a>.<\/center><\/p>\n

This was a response to my Feb. 22, 2011, in which I mused about wearing the “disaster area” leopard dress to Vanity Fair’s Oscar party<\/a>. Six days later, the always-encouraging Sheila had links to over two dozen bloggers decked out in leopard. Naturally, that dispelled any doubt I had about re-wearing my own dress for a big occasion.<\/p>\n

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Click to find out who I saw at the party.<\/p><\/div><\/center><\/p>\n

These days, you could probably round up a leap<\/a> of leopard lovers in less than an hour on Twitter, but eight years ago, something like this required a strong network of bloggers all interacting with each other in the comment sections of blogs. A couple of months later, I took “Leopard Week” and its participants to the Huffington Post (with credit going to Sheila, of course)<\/a>. <\/p>\n

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Sheila in her own leopard, on the Huffington Post.<\/p><\/div><\/center><\/p>\n

That was the second of several fashion-blogger photo galleries I did for Huffington Post. The others were:<\/p>\n