{"id":45131,"date":"2020-04-23T18:34:04","date_gmt":"2020-04-23T22:34:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/?p=45131"},"modified":"2020-04-23T18:40:51","modified_gmt":"2020-04-23T22:40:51","slug":"throwback-thursday-gangsta-boo-at-shade-45","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/2020\/04\/throwback-thursday-gangsta-boo-at-shade-45\/","title":{"rendered":"Throwback Thursday: Gangsta Boo in NYC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Shout out to Gangsta Boo, my gorgeous rapper friend, for reminding me that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/2013\/04\/the-fader-trinidad-james-fashion-blogger-gangsta-boo\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">seven years ago today<\/a>, I was her entourage as she visited <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thefader.com\/magazine\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The Fader magazine<\/a> office, followed by the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.siriusxm.com\/shade45\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Shade 45<\/a>\u00a0music station.<\/p>\n<p><center><div id=\"attachment_45132\" style=\"width: 432px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-45132\" class=\"wp-image-45132 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/boo.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"422\" height=\"452\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/boo.jpg 422w, https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/boo-280x300.jpg 280w, https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/boo-300x321.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 422px) 100vw, 422px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-45132\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Boo in 2013 wearing my custom Gangsta Boo nameplate necklace and my silver YOLO rings at the Fader magazine.<\/p><\/div><\/center><\/p>\n<p>This might have been the visit where the Shade 45 peeps assumed I was in the music business and asked, &#8220;So what do you do for Boo?&#8221; and I &#8212; at a loss as to how to explain my presence &#8212; awkwardly said, &#8220;I&#8217;m her jeweler?&#8221;\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/genius.com\/Arlo-guthrie-alices-restaurant-massacree-lyrics\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">And then they all moved away from me on the bench<\/a>, to quote Arlo Guthrie, and I vowed never to speak again even if spoken to. Though maybe that exchange happened another time, considering I thought 2013 was the year we met actor Billy Bob Thornton. That turned out to be in April 2014. I was wearing the same jacket, and confusion about dates is a slow-fashion hazard.<\/p>\n<p><center><div id=\"attachment_45133\" style=\"width: 508px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/2014\/04\/getting-bitchy-at-shade-45-with-gangsta-boo\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-45133\" class=\"wp-image-45133 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/billybobresize.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"498\" height=\"413\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/billybobresize.jpg 498w, https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/billybobresize-300x249.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 498px) 100vw, 498px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-45133\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">I was wearing an Ossie Clark top in this 2014 picture with Billy Bob at Shade 45. In April 2013, I was wearing a black sweater. Case closed.<\/p><\/div><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Anyway, I like the way Boo conscientiously noted all the outfit details in this photo she took of me hustling to catch us a cab in 2013. Pre-Uber days!<\/p>\n<p><center><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-45134\" src=\"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/fashionblog.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"489\" height=\"556\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/fashionblog.jpg 489w, https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/fashionblog-264x300.jpg 264w, https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/fashionblog-300x341.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 489px) 100vw, 489px\" \/><\/center><\/p>\n<p>I still have everything I&#8217;m wearing in the 2013 and 2014 photos except the jeans. If those are black jeans, as I suspect, I gave them away. If they&#8217;re actually very dark blue jeans, I turned them into shorts. Who else finds it strange to look at photos from the pre-COVID-19 life, even though that life only ended last month? It&#8217;s hard to believe that we just WENT OUT like that. Like it was no big deal!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Shout out to Gangsta Boo, my gorgeous rapper friend, for reminding me that seven years ago today, I was her entourage as she visited The Fader magazine office, followed by the Shade 45\u00a0music station. This might have been the visit where the Shade 45 peeps assumed I was in the music business and asked, &#8220;So&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/2020\/04\/throwback-thursday-gangsta-boo-at-shade-45\/\">Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":45132,"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":[669,20,584,1324,42,41,607],"tags":[2304,1305,1973],"class_list":{"0":"post-45131","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-about-wendy","8":"category-acne-jeans","9":"category-gangsta-boo","10":"category-homegrown-vintage","11":"category-music","12":"category-pictures-of-me","13":"category-throwback-thursday","14":"tag-shade-45","15":"tag-slow-fashion","16":"tag-slow-fashion-movement","17":"entry"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45131","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=45131"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45131\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45144,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45131\/revisions\/45144"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/45132"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45131"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45131"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45131"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}