{"id":7067,"date":"2010-09-05T18:29:24","date_gmt":"2010-09-05T22:29:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wendybrandes.com\/blog\/?p=7067"},"modified":"2011-08-31T20:16:31","modified_gmt":"2011-09-01T00:16:31","slug":"what-wendy-didnt-wear-a-smile-a-skirt-a-smiling-skirt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/2010\/09\/what-wendy-didnt-wear-a-smile-a-skirt-a-smiling-skirt\/","title":{"rendered":"What Wendy Didn&#8217;t Wear: A Smile, a Skirt, a Smiling Skirt"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to the calendar, there are two weeks of summer left, but we all know that Labor Day weekend is when the season really ends. I figured I&#8217;d go to the beach and hide my depression about the coming cold months and shorter days with the help of a smiling <a href=\"http:\/\/wendybrandes.com\/blog\/2010\/07\/feathers-water-looking-glass-and-an-imaginary-pig\/\" target=\"_blank\">Castelbajac<\/a> skirt I got in July. Unfortunately, the zipper broke before I left the room and I had to cut the skirt off me! Another repair job for <a href=\"http:\/\/wendybrandes.com\/blog\/2009\/04\/ive-seen-ghost-tailor\/\" target=\"_blank\">Jean at Ghost Tailor<\/a>. I took the skirt to the beach anyway to photograph it.<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 471px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" \" style=\"border: 0pt none;\" src=\"http:\/\/i51.tinypic.com\/25k09dk.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"461\" height=\"346\" border=\"0\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Due to zipper failure, this skirt didn&#39;t turn my frown upside down.<\/p><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">I wasn&#8217;t a fan of the 100\u00b0-plus temperatures we had in New York this summer, but I&#8217;m definitely not a cold-weather person. As far as autumn\/winter fashion goes, all those gray &#8220;draped&#8221; and &#8220;boyfriend&#8221; sweaters look baggy and blah to me. Really, I feel like July 4 was yesterday. Do the years go faster and faster or is it just me? At least there&#8217;s one benefit to my ever-increasing &#8220;time flies&#8221; feeling: it will be October in two minutes, December in 10 minutes and summer again before the day is done!<\/p>\n<p><div id=\"attachment_7071\" style=\"width: 465px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/sea.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7071\" class=\"size-full wp-image-7071    \" title=\"sea\" src=\"http:\/\/wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/sea.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"455\" height=\"286\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/sea.jpg 639w, https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/sea-300x188.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 455px) 100vw, 455px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-7071\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sigh.<\/p><\/div> <\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to the calendar, there are two weeks of summer left, but we all know that Labor Day weekend is when the season really ends. I figured I&#8217;d go to the beach and hide my depression about the coming cold months and shorter days with the help of a smiling Castelbajac skirt I got in&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/2010\/09\/what-wendy-didnt-wear-a-smile-a-skirt-a-smiling-skirt\/\">Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":7071,"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":[571,122],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-7067","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-castelbajac-2","8":"category-skirts","9":"entry"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7067","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=7067"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7067\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12188,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7067\/revisions\/12188"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7071"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7067"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7067"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7067"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}