{"id":8006,"date":"2010-11-06T00:20:16","date_gmt":"2010-11-06T04:20:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wendybrandes.com\/blog\/?p=8006"},"modified":"2010-11-06T14:50:23","modified_gmt":"2010-11-06T18:50:23","slug":"back-to-the-future-with-leggings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/2010\/11\/back-to-the-future-with-leggings\/","title":{"rendered":"Back to the Future With Leggings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was most amused by this Tweet from the adorable Miss Couturable &#8212; a student at my alma mater, Columbia University &#8212; on Friday.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em><a title=\"Noel Duan\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/#%21\/misscouturable\">misscouturable<\/a> Oversized t-shirt + @<a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/Danskin\">Danskin<\/a> leggings today make me feel like I&#8217;m channeling @<a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/WendyBrandes\">WendyBrandes<\/a> in her Columbia days.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div>Miss C was thinking of <a href=\"http:\/\/wendybrandes.com\/blog\/2008\/03\/leggings-flashback\/\" target=\"_blank\">this post about my college wardrobe<\/a>.<\/div>\n<p style=\"padding-top: 14px;\">\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/wendybrandes.com\/blog\/2008\/03\/leggings-flashback\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-8007\" title=\"paris1989\" src=\"http:\/\/wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/paris1989.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"469\" height=\"315\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/paris1989.jpg 888w, https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/paris1989-300x201.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 469px) 100vw, 469px\" \/><\/a><strong>What Wendy Wore in 1989 (and 1988, 1987, 1986 and 1985)<\/strong><br \/>\n<em><strong>T-shirt:<\/strong> Hanes<br \/>\n<strong>Cardigan and denim jacket:<\/strong> Gap<br \/>\n<strong>Leggings:<\/strong> Danskin<br \/>\n<strong>Shoes:<\/strong> Aerosole<\/em><\/div>\n<div>I demanded photographic evidence, of course.<\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_8008\" style=\"width: 425px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/noelduan.com\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8008\" class=\"size-large wp-image-8008  \" title=\"missc\" src=\"http:\/\/wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/missc-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"415\" height=\"553\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/missc-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/missc-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/missc.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 415px) 100vw, 415px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-8008\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">MissC, channeling MsB<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Nice job, MissC! If only I&#8217;d had such spectacular hair. The leggings and big tee look is <a href=\"http:\/\/wendybrandes.com\/blog\/2010\/10\/oh-give-me-a-home-where-the-buffalo-plaid-roams\/\" target=\"_blank\">one of the &#8217;80s styles<\/a> that I personally have no intention of going back to on a regular basis. I wore it to fashion death back in the day. But I will be putting on something similar just to illustrate a post I have in the works. Stay tuned! In the meantime, you can enjoy this:<\/p>\n<div><object classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" width=\"480\" height=\"385\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/yosuvf7Unmg?fs=1&amp;hl=en_US\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><embed type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"480\" height=\"385\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/yosuvf7Unmg?fs=1&amp;hl=en_US\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\"><\/embed><\/object><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>UPDATED TO ADD: Gorgeous blogger Jemina decided to go for the look too. Click her picture to read her post.<\/div>\n<div>\n<div id=\"attachment_8044\" style=\"width: 446px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jeminajakin.com\/2010\/11\/b-w-here-we-go.html\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8044\" class=\"size-full wp-image-8044 \" title=\"jemina\" src=\"http:\/\/wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/jemina.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"436\" height=\"576\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/jemina.jpg 484w, https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/jemina-226x300.jpg 226w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 436px) 100vw, 436px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-8044\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jemina<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p> <\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was most amused by this Tweet from the adorable Miss Couturable &#8212; a student at my alma mater, Columbia University &#8212; on Friday. misscouturable Oversized t-shirt + @Danskin leggings today make me feel like I&#8217;m channeling @WendyBrandes in her Columbia days. Miss C was thinking of this post about my college wardrobe. What Wendy&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/2010\/11\/back-to-the-future-with-leggings\/\">Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":8007,"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":[12,119,550],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-8006","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-blogs-and-bloggers","8":"category-leggings","9":"category-vintage-wendyb-photos","10":"entry"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8006","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=8006"}],"version-history":[{"count":32,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8006\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8045,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8006\/revisions\/8045"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8007"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8006"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8006"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8006"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}