{"id":962,"date":"2008-11-22T23:15:00","date_gmt":"2008-11-23T06:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wendybrandes.com\/blog\/?p=962"},"modified":"2009-06-20T20:26:21","modified_gmt":"2009-06-21T00:26:21","slug":"three-textures-new-ring","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/2008\/11\/three-textures-new-ring\/","title":{"rendered":"Three Textures, New Ring"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You can&#8217;t see much in this picture [glaring at photographer], so you&#8217;ll just have to believe me when I tell you that I&#8217;m wearing three textures of black in this photograph from Friday night. If you click on the photo, you can enlarge it a tad.<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_gTmdbGeiE-E\/SSjug6cTY1I\/AAAAAAAAGq4\/P42OJxDYDco\/s1600-h\/Snapshot+2008-11-23+00-46-48.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 111px; height: 320px;\" src=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_gTmdbGeiE-E\/SSjug6cTY1I\/AAAAAAAAGq4\/P42OJxDYDco\/s320\/Snapshot+2008-11-23+00-46-48.jpg\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5271725613048357714\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><span style=\"font-size:85%;\"><span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Dolce &amp; Gabbana jacket (previously seen <\/span><a style=\"font-style: italic;\" href=\"http:\/\/wendybrandes.com\/blog\/2008\/11\/human-and-canine-outfits\/\">here<\/a><span style=\"font-style: italic;\">)<\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Velvet <\/span><a style=\"font-style: italic;\" href=\"http:\/\/wbjewelry.blogspot.com\/2007\/09\/zang-with-z.html\">Zang Toi<\/a><span style=\"font-style: italic;\"> trousers<\/span><br \/><a style=\"font-style: italic;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ninewest.com\/Iam\/3087568,default,pd.html?cgid=1039\">Lace booties<\/a><span style=\"font-style: italic;\"> from Nine West<br \/><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<p>Here is a view of the shoes from above so you can see the lace.<\/p>\n<p><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ninewest.com\/Iam\/3087568,default,pd.html?cgid=1039\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 150px; height: 200px;\" src=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_gTmdbGeiE-E\/SSjuzc9ryvI\/AAAAAAAAGrA\/23VtfzA3wO0\/s200\/IMG_0090.JPG\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5271725931552819954\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><br \/>Here&#8217;s a jewelry closeup.<a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 240px; height: 320px;\" src=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_gTmdbGeiE-E\/SSjyhQsuYEI\/AAAAAAAAGrg\/b8KgByUF_Mo\/s320\/jewelry+closeup.jpg\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5271730017069326402\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>The giant blue topaz and silver ring is a new piece named Nuit &#8212; not for the French word for &#8220;night,&#8221; but for the ancient <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Nut_%28goddess%29\">Egyptian goddess of the sky<\/a>. It&#8217;s pronounced &#8220;newt,&#8221; instead of &#8220;nwee.&#8221; I always have to make things difficult, don&#8217;t I?<\/p>\n<p>Earlier in the week, I wore my only &#8220;crisp white shirt&#8221; with an early <a href=\"http:\/\/wbjewelry.blogspot.com\/2008\/03\/from-archives-of-christian-francis-roth.html\">&#8217;90s Christian Francis Roth <\/a>skirt to a dinner.<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_gTmdbGeiE-E\/SSjyY7cloDI\/AAAAAAAAGrY\/PLINlxNcNmc\/s1600-h\/Snapshot+2008-11-23+01-02-47.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 103px; height: 320px;\" src=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_gTmdbGeiE-E\/SSjyY7cloDI\/AAAAAAAAGrY\/PLINlxNcNmc\/s320\/Snapshot+2008-11-23+01-02-47.jpg\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5271729873925546034\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><span style=\"font-size:85%;\"><span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Anne Fontaine blouse<\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Christian Francis Roth skirt<\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Mid-90s patent <\/span><a style=\"font-style: italic;\" href=\"http:\/\/wbjewelry.blogspot.com\/2008\/02\/basic-wardrobe-part-ii.html\">Prada Mary Janes<\/a><br \/><\/span><\/div>\n<p>Whenever I hear\/read someone say that a &#8220;crisp white shirt&#8221; is essential to everyone&#8217;s wardrobe, I want to hit them in the face with my giant Nuit ring. Shirts stay crisp on me for about two seconds and then they&#8217;re a wrinkled twisted mess. It looks like my collar is all askew in this photo as a bonus. I got this blouse because it was the necessary underpinning for a really cute vest. The vest, unfortunately, did not go with the skirt so the blouse went out on its own. Love the skirt, though.<\/p>\n<p>If you want more information about the ring, contact me at wbjewelry at hotmail dot com. <\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You can&#8217;t see much in this picture [glaring at photographer], so you&#8217;ll just have to believe me when I tell you that I&#8217;m wearing three textures of black in this photograph from Friday night. If you click on the photo, you can enlarge it a tad. Dolce &amp; Gabbana jacket (previously seen here)Velvet Zang Toi&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/2008\/11\/three-textures-new-ring\/\">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":[91,81,71,43,96,41,6,31,122,102,66],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-962","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-boots","7":"category-christian-francis-roth","8":"category-jackets","9":"category-my-designs","10":"category-pants","11":"category-pictures-of-me","12":"category-rings","13":"category-shoes","14":"category-skirts","15":"category-tops","16":"category-zang-toi","17":"entry"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/962","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=962"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/962\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1409,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/962\/revisions\/1409"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=962"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=962"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=962"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}