{"id":727,"date":"2008-02-19T16:38:40","date_gmt":"2008-02-20T00:38:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/godammit.com\/2008\/02\/19\/the-stylish-wicked-witch\/"},"modified":"2008-02-19T18:46:51","modified_gmt":"2008-02-20T02:46:51","slug":"the-stylish-wicked-witch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/godammit.com\/the-stylish-wicked-witch\/","title":{"rendered":"The Stylish Wicked Witch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/godammit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/02\/garethpugh01.jpg\" title=\"garethpugh01.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/godammit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/02\/garethpugh01.jpg?w=640\" alt=\"garethpugh01.jpg\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/godammit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/02\/luellao8.jpg\" title=\"luellao8.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/godammit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/02\/luellao8.jpg?w=640\" alt=\"luellao8.jpg\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Sometimes everything comes together in a manner I might call \u2018synchronicity\u2019 if I didn\u2019t hate Sting so much. I went to see the musical \u201c<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/wickedthemusical.com\/#WickedCitiesLosAngeles?gclid=CKKw2b3B0ZECFREBiQodTQzxZQ\">Wicked<\/a>,\u201d and apart from finding it delightful in every way, it inspired me to consider dressing like a mean witch in my old age. It\u2019s not the first time I\u2019ve thought of it, but the fitted Victorian-style witch-dress as worn by Elphaba was easy to admire as an everyday get-up. It would look nice with my hair, if I still have any in ten years or so.<\/p>\n<p>Now, looking at some runway styles for next fall, I sense a strong Witch-thing going on. Fantastic!&nbsp;\u00a0 Let us celebrate the Wicked Witch of the West, in all her glory. I might forego the green make-up, but I do plan to be as regal and scary as possible, just as soon as I can no longer pull off the Cougar-thing.<\/p>\n<p>The designs above are by <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.hintmag.com\/blog\/2008\/02\/london-fashion-week-block.html\">Gareth Pugh <\/a>and <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/shinysquirrel.typepad.com\/shiny_squirrel_\/2008\/02\/luella--fall-08.html\">Luella Bartley<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/godammit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/02\/elphaba08.jpg\" title=\"elphaba08.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/godammit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/02\/elphaba08.jpg?w=640\" alt=\"elphaba08.jpg\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sometimes everything comes together in a manner I might call \u2018synchronicity\u2019 if I didn\u2019t hate Sting so much. I went to see the musical \u201cWicked,\u201d and apart from finding it delightful in every way, it inspired me to consider dressing &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/godammit.com\/the-stylish-wicked-witch\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[2],"tags":[19,21,20,18],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7t44M-bJ","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/godammit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/727"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/godammit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/godammit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/godammit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/godammit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=727"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/godammit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/727\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/godammit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=727"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/godammit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=727"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/godammit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=727"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}