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Somewhere, a Peacock Curses Me

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As you saw in my previous post, I packed up my feathery shawl and went to D.C. for the evening to attend an inaugural party thrown by The Root. The green gown is by my designing friend Zang Toi. He made two peacock accessories to go with it: the shawl and a fan.

I wore the shawl last night.

The first time I wore the dress, in 2006, I carried the fan.

With MrB in ’06

The Root’s party was held at the Smithsonian National Museum of American History. We had a good time meeting the locals there.

MrB’s new friend looks a little horny.

Spike Lee, Samuel L. Jackson and Natalie Portman were all at the party, but I chose to pose with Honest Abe because he is the only one famous enough to have his picture on money.

UPDATED TO ADD: As I previously pointed out, this dress was from the same Zang Toi collection as a peacock mini that Eva Longoria wore in 2008.

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  3. You look amazing! I love it. You should have brought the fan as well, a little OTT but for this celebration, totally the right move.

  4. I’d love to see your jewelry with lapis! I absolutely love lapis and malachite and have been yearning for a piece of jewelry with those to stones 🙂

  9. I was excited when I saw the scarf yesterday, but with the dress, I’m absolutely drooling! SO GORGEOUS! It looks amazing on you, and it’s beautiful how he chose to focus on the vibrant green in the peacock feathers.

  21. You look amazing! That shade of green definitely suits you. 🙂

    P.S. I love the expression on Honest Abe’s face.

  24. Really, that color is fantastic on you! Love the peacock!

    You were in my neck of the woods! Hope the crowds and traffic weren’t overwhelming!

  25. I love that shawl! You look so elegant – especially standing next to Abe.

    I’m afraid Lauren and I are going to be a little less elegantly dressed while we freeze our arses off on the mall.

  27. Oh my god, I want that dress and shawl. Gimme!

    You ever get tired of this, you send it my way, Wendy.

  28. Wow!

    You are so beautiful. J’adore your outfit!

    OMG! Peacock shawl!

    Have a nice dsy: Janet

  30. you look very elegant and the green on the dress is amazing:)
    you look really beautiful!

  32. you are ridiculous sexy in that green dress, and that shawl is worth multitudes of peacock cursing. they’re aren’t very friendly birds anyway.
    I hope Zang Toi is doing lots and lots of inaugural gowns.

  33. Wow, the colour of that dress is gorgeous and I love it with the peacock shawl, it really suits you!

  35. Wow, gorgeous dress!!! Love Zang Toi, he’s the most famous designer to come out of my home country!!

  40. You were(are) in DC and didn’t call me? You could have come over to my apartment and hung out with me and Red. We would play Mario Kart and prank call Pistols. It would have been a blast!

  42. Love that Shawl! Congratulations on the celebrations WendyB; the rest of the world is Oh So Happy for you.
    xx

  43. hot hot hot. and that lincoln looks like he’s got eyebrows (probably fake) that aspire to be like sam waterston’s….

  45. Did you ask Abe if that was a stovepipe hat on his head or was he just happy to see you?

    Actually, that’d be really inappropriate to ask the 16th President that.

  50. Go you! I’ll bet you outshone them all—Abe included! What a fantastic night that must have been…