{"id":7218,"date":"2010-09-30T20:38:57","date_gmt":"2010-10-01T00:38:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wendybrandes.com\/blog\/?p=7218"},"modified":"2010-09-30T20:42:37","modified_gmt":"2010-10-01T00:42:37","slug":"howdy-pardners","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/2010\/09\/howdy-pardners\/","title":{"rendered":"Howdy, Pardners!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My gorgeous friend Christine was supposed to attend <a href=\"http:\/\/wendybrandes.com\/blog\/2010\/09\/what-wendy-wore-zang-toi-dress-at-zang-toi-show\/\" target=\"_blank\">Zang Toi&#8217;s \u201cLone Star Cowboy &amp; the Texas Rose&#8221;-themed show<\/a> with me on September 16, but something suddenly came up, <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/List_of_The_Brady_Bunch_characters#Greg_Brady\" target=\"_blank\">as Greg Brady would say<\/a>. So I took Christine to Zang&#8217;s showroom a couple of days later, accompanied by gorgeous blogger Jennine of <a href=\"http:\/\/the-coveted.com\/blog\/\" target=\"_blank\">The Coveted<\/a>. Christine picked out a dress from the show but chose all new colors for her version. (I won&#8217;t give away her look until the dress is done.) Zang is so great about customizing. While that was going on, Jennine and I tried on the Stetson hats from the runway.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_7220\" style=\"width: 501px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/cowgirls.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7220\" class=\"size-full wp-image-7220\" title=\"cowgirls\" src=\"http:\/\/wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/cowgirls.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"491\" height=\"369\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/cowgirls.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/cowgirls-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 491px) 100vw, 491px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-7220\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Urban cowgirls.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>I just <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0388795\/quotes\" target=\"_blank\">couldn&#8217;t quit<\/a> the cowboy-printed dress I admired on the runway, so I tried it on. Zang and his assistant Sisi used about 100 pins to show me what it would look like in my size.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<div id=\"attachment_7306\" style=\"width: 471px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7306\" class=\"size-full wp-image-7306  \" title=\"zangcowboy\" src=\"http:\/\/wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/zangcowboy.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"461\" height=\"614\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/zangcowboy.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/zangcowboy-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 461px) 100vw, 461px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-7306\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Zang is behind me, doing the pinning. That&#39;s his leg on the right.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Please note the hemline dragging on the ground despite my 5&#8243; platform heels. Now look at where the hem hit the runway model &#8230; above the ankle!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<div id=\"attachment_7219\" style=\"width: 471px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7219\" class=\"size-full wp-image-7219  \" title=\"zang3\" src=\"http:\/\/wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/zang31.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"461\" height=\"614\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/zang31.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/zang31-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 461px) 100vw, 461px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-7219\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">On the runway.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>If this model wore a miniskirt, I could probably wear it as a maxi dress. There was a pair of pants that went up to my chin &#8212; no exaggeration! <\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My gorgeous friend Christine was supposed to attend Zang Toi&#8217;s \u201cLone Star Cowboy &amp; the Texas Rose&#8221;-themed show with me on September 16, but something suddenly came up, as Greg Brady would say. So I took Christine to Zang&#8217;s showroom a couple of days later, accompanied by gorgeous blogger Jennine of The Coveted. Christine picked&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/2010\/09\/howdy-pardners\/\">Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":7219,"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":[12,41,66],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-7218","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-blogs-and-bloggers","8":"category-pictures-of-me","9":"category-zang-toi","10":"entry"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7218","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=7218"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7218\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7314,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7218\/revisions\/7314"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7219"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7218"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7218"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7218"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}