{"id":9290,"date":"2011-01-24T16:37:09","date_gmt":"2011-01-24T21:37:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wendybrandes.com\/blog\/?p=9290"},"modified":"2011-08-31T23:30:47","modified_gmt":"2011-09-01T03:30:47","slug":"wendyb-called-she-wants-her-pose-back","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/2011\/01\/wendyb-called-she-wants-her-pose-back\/","title":{"rendered":"WendyB Called. She Wants Her Pose Back."},"content":{"rendered":"

Once, when my father, GeorgeB, was struggling to take an acceptable outfit photo of me for this blog (“Move! Don’t stand there like a statue!”), I said sadly, “I have only one pose.”<\/p>\n

“Be thankful,” GeorgeB replied, “Some people don’t even have one.” It was the fashion-blogger version of “I cried because I had no shoes until I met a man who had no feet.”<\/p>\n

So, while I admire all the fashion bloggers who pose pigeon-toed, crouching, leaping, pouting, looking away from the camera, or coyly laughing at a joke only they know, I continue to stand stock-still, cross my legs, plant my hand(s) on my hip and smile into the camera.<\/p>\n

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2008 photo by Craig of Altamira. <\/p><\/div>\n

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I was probably smiling even though my face isn't in this 2008 photo.<\/p><\/div>\n

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Zang Toi's presence doesn't throw me off my fierce posing game.<\/p><\/div>\n

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Shivering in a vintage skirt in December 2009.<\/p><\/div>\n

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Doing it backwards in December 2009.<\/p><\/div>\n

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On the way to see SATC2 in May 2010.<\/p><\/div>\n

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Dressed like The Nanny in December 2010.<\/p><\/div>\n

Imagine my shock yesterday when, while reading the New York Times, I noticed “On the Street” photographer Bill Cunningham’s words about “a new posture.”<\/a><\/p>\n

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“Every era has a defining stance, and at present, it is standing with your legs crossed, like a model or a dancer en pointe.”<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

WTF?! Bitches stole my pose<\/a>!<\/p>\n

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Photo by Bill Cunningham\/New York Times. Click for source and more examples.<\/p><\/div>\n

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Photo by Bill Cunningham\/New York Times.<\/p><\/div>\n

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Photo by Bill Cunningham\/New York Times.<\/p><\/div>\n

Normally, I don’t mind being a trendsetter but this time I don’t have enough poses to go around. Get your own, ladies! And don’t even THINK of adding a big, red-lipstick smile to the leg cross or I’ma get all “hold my earrings<\/a>” on your asses.<\/p>\n

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UPDATED TO ADD: Erin from Work With What You’ve Got<\/a>, who left the first comment here (and didn’t even write “FIRST!!!!111!!! because she’s classy that way), has inspired me to request your pictures of your WendyB poses for a mega-stolen-pose post. Leave ’em in the comments or holla at me at wbjewelry at hotmail dot com. <\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Once, when my father, GeorgeB, was struggling to take an acceptable outfit photo of me for this blog (“Move! Don’t stand there like a statue!”), I said sadly, “I have only one pose.” “Be thankful,” GeorgeB replied, “Some people don’t even have one.” It was the fashion-blogger version of “I cried because I had no…<\/p>\n

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