{"id":43537,"date":"2019-08-27T17:55:22","date_gmt":"2019-08-27T21:55:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/?p=43537"},"modified":"2019-08-27T17:58:57","modified_gmt":"2019-08-27T21:58:57","slug":"what-wendy-wore-slow-fashion-mcqueen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/2019\/08\/what-wendy-wore-slow-fashion-mcqueen\/","title":{"rendered":"What Wendy Wore: Slow-Fashion McQueen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been dressing very casually lately, so I made a point of putting on a dress for MrB&#8217;s belated birthday dinner on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p><center><\/center><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-43538\" src=\"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/mcqueenaug2019blog.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"498\" height=\"1062\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/mcqueenaug2019blog.jpg 498w, https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/mcqueenaug2019blog-141x300.jpg 141w, https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/mcqueenaug2019blog-480x1024.jpg 480w, https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/mcqueenaug2019blog-300x640.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 498px) 100vw, 498px\" \/><em><strong>Dress:<\/strong>\u00a0 Alexander McQueen (2010)<\/em><br \/>\n<em><strong>Shoes:<\/strong> Prada (2010)<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">This dress by Alexander McQueen is homegrown vintage. I wore it for the first time <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/2010\/06\/what-wendy-wore-california-three-peat\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">during a 2010 trip to L.A., for dinner with my fashion-blogger friends<\/a>. In the 2010 photo below, it looks like I might be holding <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/2007\/08\/ladies-who-lunch-with-prada-bags\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">my squishy, patent Prada bag from 2007<\/a>, which happens to be the same bag I carried for this year&#8217;s birthday dinner.<\/p>\n<p><center><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_43539\" style=\"width: 508px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/2018\/07\/throwback-thursday-bastille-day-memories-and-jewelry\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-43539\" class=\"wp-image-43539\" src=\"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/mcqueendressla_1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"498\" height=\"664\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/mcqueendressla_1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/mcqueendressla_1024-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/mcqueendressla_1024-300x400.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 498px) 100vw, 498px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-43539\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">This is from 2010. Click for another photo of the dress in 2011.<\/p><\/div>\n<p><\/center>Meanwhile, even as more people get into the idea of slow fashion, I&#8217;m having a &#8220;yikes&#8221; moment about it. You get to a certain age when everything feels like it happened yesterday &#8230; but then you realize it was a decade ago. Digging up photos of homegrown vintage tends to rub that in. Time flies when you&#8217;re having fun, I guess? That&#8217;s what I keep telling myself, at least.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been dressing very casually lately, so I made a point of putting on a dress for MrB&#8217;s belated birthday dinner on Sunday. Dress:\u00a0 Alexander McQueen (2010) Shoes: Prada (2010) This dress by Alexander McQueen is homegrown vintage. I wore it for the first time during a 2010 trip to L.A., for dinner with my&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/2019\/08\/what-wendy-wore-slow-fashion-mcqueen\/\">Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":43538,"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":[669,61,1,1324,277,41,27,655,550,497],"tags":[425,1305,1973],"class_list":["post-43537","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-about-wendy","category-dresses","category-uncategorized","category-homegrown-vintage","category-outfit-post","category-pictures-of-me","category-prada","category-repeat-offender-collage","category-vintage-wendyb-photos","category-what-wendy-wore","tag-alexander-mcqueen","tag-slow-fashion","tag-slow-fashion-movement","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43537","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=43537"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43537\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43546,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43537\/revisions\/43546"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/43538"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43537"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43537"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43537"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}