{"id":13,"date":"2006-02-20T10:27:06","date_gmt":"2006-02-20T15:27:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.silkentent.com\/Refig\/2006\/02\/20\/little-red-dress\/"},"modified":"2011-11-02T11:54:35","modified_gmt":"2011-11-02T16:54:35","slug":"little-red-dress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.silkentent.com\/Refig\/?p=13","title":{"rendered":"Little Red Dress"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>February 20, 2006<br \/>\nMonday<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img title=\"Little Red Dress\" src=\"http:\/\/www.silkentent.com\/Images\/littlereddress.jpeg\" alt=\"Little Red Dress\" align=\"left\" \/>I want to wear clothes that have no elastic, that have zippers or buttons or snaps instead. I want to wear clothes that have a number for a size instead of a letter. I want this little red dress from <a title=\"Coldwater Creek\" href=\"http:\/\/www.coldwatercreek.com\" target=\"_blank\">Coldwater Creek<\/a>, with its flared asymmetric hem and its back waist darts and its (<em>oh <a title=\"Margaret of Cortona\" href=\"http:\/\/www.silkentent.com\/Refig\/?p=9\" target=\"_blank\">Sweet Margaret of Cortona<\/a>, pray for me!<\/em>) pintucks that cross the hip.<\/p>\n<p>I go along thinking that I am more or less a Size L. I rarely try clothes on in a store. I buy mostly knits and stick with brands I know and trust. I send away for Lands&#8217; End size L pants (with an elastic waistband, of course), and shop at the Bon Ton for Liz Claiborne tops in XL (because I don&#8217;t like things to bind in the bust). I have a Coldwater Creek denim jacket in L, and a swirly fake suede skirt in PXL.<\/p>\n<p>I took my measurements on February 1 and wrote them down in my notebook. They translate to a size 22W to 24W in the Coldwater Creek size chart. The dress pictured comes in sizes 6 through 18 only. I need to lose about ten inches in the waist to be a Coldwater Creek Size 16. According to my friends on the Weight Watchers &#8220;50+ pounds to lose&#8221; message board, it takes about 15 pounds (and working out to tone and reshape as you lose) to go down one dress size. So I&#8217;m looking at 45 pounds before I can even think about this little red dress that I want to wear in August when I go out to dinner for my wedding anniversary.<\/p>\n<p>45 pounds divided by 24 weeks (to August 7) equals 1.87 pounds a week. Doable, certainly, within Weight Watchers guidelines of no more than 2 pounds a week.<\/p>\n<p>But to someone who&#8217;s lost only 2 pounds since the first of the year, that seems impossible.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>February 20, 2006 Monday I want to wear clothes that have no elastic, that have zippers or buttons or snaps instead. I want to wear clothes that have a number for a size instead of a letter. I want this little red dress from Coldwater Creek, with its flared asymmetric hem and its back waist [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4,5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.silkentent.com\/Refig\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.silkentent.com\/Refig\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.silkentent.com\/Refig\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.silkentent.com\/Refig\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.silkentent.com\/Refig\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.silkentent.com\/Refig\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48,"href":"http:\/\/www.silkentent.com\/Refig\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13\/revisions\/48"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.silkentent.com\/Refig\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.silkentent.com\/Refig\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.silkentent.com\/Refig\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}