{"id":43560,"date":"2019-08-29T23:55:20","date_gmt":"2019-08-30T03:55:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/?p=43560"},"modified":"2019-08-29T23:55:20","modified_gmt":"2019-08-30T03:55:20","slug":"throwback-thursday-guess-and-gladiators-in-1985","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/2019\/08\/throwback-thursday-guess-and-gladiators-in-1985\/","title":{"rendered":"Throwback Thursday: Guess and Gladiators in 1985"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/2008\/03\/gladiator-strikes-back\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">In a 2008 post about gladiator sandals<\/a>, I wrote:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em><br \/>\n&#8220;I\u2019ve loved this style since 1985, when I had a pair of flat white gladiators. I felt so chic when I wore them with my Guess ankle-zip jeans and oversize blouse! I\u2019ve been searching for a photo that shows me wearing those shoes for a while now, but I\u2019ve been unsuccessful.&#8221;<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Well, look what I found! A photo with the ankle-zip jeans and the sandals. You can&#8217;t see my oversize top, but that&#8217;s because it&#8217;s under <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/2013\/05\/throwback-thursday-1980s-denim-jacket\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">my beloved oversize denim jacket<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><center><div id=\"attachment_43561\" style=\"width: 410px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/gladiator.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-43561\" class=\"wp-image-43561\" src=\"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/gladiator.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"1303\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/gladiator.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/gladiator-92x300.jpg 92w, https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/gladiator-768x2501.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/gladiator-314x1024.jpg 314w, https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/gladiator-300x977.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-43561\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo from 1985.<\/p><\/div><\/center><\/p>\n<p>This is a huge improvement over the only other photo I&#8217;d found of the sandals, in which I wasn&#8217;t wearing them.<\/p>\n<p><center><div id=\"attachment_43562\" style=\"width: 508px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/2013\/10\/throwback-thursday-gladiators-plus-more-miley-madonna\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-43562\" class=\"wp-image-43562\" src=\"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/gladsandalscrop.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"498\" height=\"530\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/gladsandalscrop.jpg 940w, https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/gladsandalscrop-282x300.jpg 282w, https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/gladsandalscrop-768x817.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/gladsandalscrop-300x319.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 498px) 100vw, 498px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-43562\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Click for original post.<\/p><\/div><\/center><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m not sure if I have any other photos that show the ankle-zip jeans. We didn&#8217;t make a point of taking head-to-toe outfit photos in the pre-fashion-blog days. We were working with a limited amount of film frames and just praying we&#8217;d wind up with a picture in which everyone&#8217;s eyes were open! Anyway, finding this photo is a triumph. Maybe I&#8217;ll find that picture of me with Roger Daltry next!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a 2008 post about gladiator sandals, I wrote: &#8220;I\u2019ve loved this style since 1985, when I had a pair of flat white gladiators. I felt so chic when I wore them with my Guess ankle-zip jeans and oversize blouse! I\u2019ve been searching for a photo that shows me wearing those shoes for a while&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/2019\/08\/throwback-thursday-guess-and-gladiators-in-1985\/\">Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":43561,"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":[642,669,1,41,31,607,550],"tags":[1412,2140],"class_list":["post-43560","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-80s-style","category-about-wendy","category-uncategorized","category-pictures-of-me","category-shoes","category-throwback-thursday","category-vintage-wendyb-photos","tag-1980s-fashion","tag-gladiator-sandals","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43560","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=43560"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43560\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43563,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43560\/revisions\/43563"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/43561"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43560"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43560"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43560"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}