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My peeps, you must make buttons and bumper stickers and signs and get the vote out for me for Best Fashion Blog. Why am I the best? Because I represent hope! Just look at my motto: “Wear What You Want.” It’s positive, not negative. I wrote about the meaning of my motto last January:

I added “Wear What You Want” to the header because I am irritated by self-appointed “Fashion Police” who persecute anyone who shows a little creativity. Obviously, “Wear What You Want” doesn’t apply to every situation. You shouldn’t wear a boob belt dress to a funeral. Nor should you wear a skin-tight, backless white halter dress to your first day of work as an intern at CNN. I didn’t do that! Someone else did. I’m still traumatized ten years later. “Wear What You Want” applies to your “you” time: casual time, fun time, party time, private time.

It’s easy to sit at home and complain about the world’s fashion choices: This one is too crazy, this one is too dull, this one wears too much makeup, this one should wear some lipstick. Please! You can find something wrong with everyone if you try hard enough. Okay, once in a while I can’t resist teasing someone about her armgina, but that’s an awesome word that needs to be used whenever possible and the opportunities don’t come around too often. What matters more is that I am willing to wear a sausage-casing-tight leopard dress and stride right onto the Disaster Area page myself. I ain’t scared!


So, I’m open-minded about fashion (don’t I always encourage the wardrobe experiments of you other fashion bloggers?). I already listed many of my other fine qualities in my first campaign speech. Now, a scientific survey of one person (thanks, ENC) proves that I have meaningful experience in the following important fashion-blogging areas:

And most important of all, I have fish feet.

Click here to vote for fish feet!

The fish feet prove beyond any doubt that this is the best fashion blog. Go vote. (This means you, lurkers!)

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  6. You got the feet! Coolio.
    Theclotheshorse tped me off about you having a red lipstick application tips post, I don’t know how I missed that! Would you mind pointing me in the right direction? You know you’d then have my vote 😉 xx

  7. DONE!

    By the way – after seeing that leopard print photo, you are literally my hero

    x

  9. I voted I voted! And I just want to point out that you can vote once every 24 hours… so everyone should not only vote, but KEEP VOTING!!!

  10. What can we do to increase your votes those go fug yourself lot are stealing a march and the sat is just pipping you – I couldn’t vote again they know I did before damn these proper webmasters!

  13. can you all put it on your facebook and send out some emails – asking for your friends to vote for Wendy’s blog — since it will just annoying the heck out of us – that some other fashionista — that doesn;t “GIVE” what wendy gives — 100% is ahead of us right now.. !!! yikes…

  15. If I can figure out how to vote more than once, I will!

    I think the fish feet are very important to the campaign. However, I also believe your stance on Flower Feet is integral to your platform, and I hope you will go into some detail on this matter.

  16. You’re up against some tough competition, Wendy B, but you have my vote! The fish feet sealed it.

  17. as a peon in the broadcast news industry, “Nor should you wear a skin-tight, backless white halter dress to your first day of work as an intern at CNN” comment made me laugh my ass off because seriously, INTERNS DO THIS. SEMESTER after SEMESTER after SEMESTER.

  20. “Armgina”! How did Miss J miss that the first time around???? WendyB gets a vote just for that!

  21. I voted I voted!

    Still can’t believe you got called out for that awesome leopard dress. That thing is demure and still flaming hot!

  26. oh… I want the Cleves ring to be my wedding/engagement/something romantic ring… I’m telling the boy… 😉

    It would NEVER come off then!

  27. Hi Wendy!

    Happy New Year!
    My best wishes for you!!!

    I love this fish shoe, its pretty fun!

    a kiss and hug,
    Kira

  29. Disaster?! Tsk..what do they know?! fucking amateurs. You looked stunning in that dress my dear.

    Congrats on the nomination!
    xx-LJ from SOS!

  30. That was a good pitch, but the clincher was definitely the fish feet.

    P.S.
    A haiku in response to your comment. Hopefully this will suffice:

    Wendy B gives me
    Warm and fuzzy feelings true
    Check out her bling bling

  31. Go Wendy, you know you can do it. These others are mere amateurs! (Now, to clarify, are we really allowed to vote once a day?)

  34. Those fish feet are AMAZING!!!!!! Are you going to the sample shoe sale for some more fish feet? I’m going tomorrow – its on 1356 Broadway near 36th.

  36. I hope you win! I’ll consider myself a winner if I come in somewhere in the middle. Have any votes to spare? haha ;D

  40. thank goodness I checked in tonight, I might have missed the most important vote of our lifetime! I voted, but we are going to need some more lurkers!

  44. I demand more fish feet photos!!!

    PS: you need a matching bag that would devour your hand or shoulder or something.