{"id":758,"date":"2008-08-15T21:01:00","date_gmt":"2008-08-16T04:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wendybrandes.com\/blog\/?p=758"},"modified":"2010-11-29T15:13:40","modified_gmt":"2010-11-29T20:13:40","slug":"color-of-royalty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/2008\/08\/color-of-royalty\/","title":{"rendered":"The Color of Royalty"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When Karla of Karla&#8217;s Closet modeled her <a href=\"http:\/\/karlascloset.blogspot.com\/2008\/08\/karma-kameloen.html\">peach American Apparel skirt<\/a> recently, this anonymous comment made me laugh out loud:<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<blockquote><p>Oh how glad I am you didn&#8217;t choose the purple Barney-esque color. I think a lot of your style originality comes from the fact that you can wear just about any brand (I even dare to say something like Abercrombie with it&#8217;s huge moose logo splattered across the front) without making it look tacky. I think the purple shade from AA is so tacky and name-brand-obvious when worn that it would have ruined anything you pared with it.<br \/>\nNICE CHOICE.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<p>Here are my (previously posted) legs in my tacky purple American Apparel skirt.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/wbjewelry.blogspot.com\/2008\/07\/another-short-skirt-story.html\" onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5233848674730109650\" style=\"margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;\" src=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_gTmdbGeiE-E\/SKJdo7lv6tI\/AAAAAAAAD9o\/4lEgGVTSXuY\/s320\/purpleskirtcrop.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nWho knew this skirt was such a prestigious, name-brand item? Here I was thinking it was a generic piece in a flattering color. I stand corrected! Anyway, if you&#8217;re like me and like purple despite its being an &#8220;in&#8221; color, you&#8217;ll appreciate gorgeous blogger ENC&#8217;s purple <a href=\"http:\/\/observationmode.blogspot.com\/2008\/08\/color-of-season.html\">Balenciaga bag<\/a>. Tell her you love it!<\/p>\n<p>My favorite purple pieces are the jacket and skirt of a Versace suit I got a number of years ago. You&#8217;ve seen these photos before.<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/wbjewelry.blogspot.com\/2008\/02\/nomi-malone-loves-versace-too.html\" onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5234065341728712546\" style=\"margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;\" src=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_gTmdbGeiE-E\/SKMisnDsZ2I\/AAAAAAAAD94\/ZCIGpaoBfQw\/s320\/momandwendy%2Boct%2B13%2B2%2Bcropped.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><span style=\"font-size: 85%;\"><span style=\"font-style: italic;\">BarbaraB nervously cozies up to the hairy purple jacket<\/span><br \/>\n<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/wbjewelry.blogspot.com\/2008\/04\/awkward-fashion-moment.html\" onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5234065204762808434\" style=\"margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;\" src=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_gTmdbGeiE-E\/SKMiko0ekHI\/AAAAAAAAD9w\/AYeW_aIegTI\/s320\/Picture%2B294.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><span style=\"font-size: 85%;\"><span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Plaid and <a href=\"http:\/\/wbjewelry.blogspot.com\/2008\/01\/buh-bye-louboutin.html\">flower feet<\/a> are the perfect combination<\/span><br \/>\n<\/span><\/div>\n<p>I just realized that the prestigious American Apparel skirt will be fabulous with <a href=\"http:\/\/wbjewelry.blogspot.com\/2008\/01\/buh-bye-louboutin.html\">flower feet<\/a>. I&#8217;ll have to wear that combination soon.<\/p>\n<p>UPDATED TO ADD: Thanks to <a href=\"http:\/\/squareoldsoul.blogspot.com\/\">Pamcasso<\/a> for alerting me to <a href=\"http:\/\/hotbisexualmodel.blogspot.com\/2007\/09\/carine-roitfeld-wears-american-apparel.html\">Carine Roitfeld<\/a> wearing the American Apparel skirt last year. <\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When Karla of Karla&#8217;s Closet modeled her peach American Apparel skirt recently, this anonymous comment made me laugh out loud: Oh how glad I am you didn&#8217;t choose the purple Barney-esque color. I think a lot of your style originality comes from the fact that you can wear just about any brand (I even dare&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/2008\/08\/color-of-royalty\/\">Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","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":[12,81,71,41,122,105],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-758","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-blogs-and-bloggers","7":"category-christian-francis-roth","8":"category-jackets","9":"category-pictures-of-me","10":"category-skirts","11":"category-versace","12":"entry"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/758","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=758"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/758\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8501,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/758\/revisions\/8501"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=758"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=758"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=758"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}