{"id":20137,"date":"2010-08-24T10:08:32","date_gmt":"2010-08-24T17:08:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.alleewillis.com\/blog\/?p=20137"},"modified":"2010-08-24T10:08:32","modified_gmt":"2010-08-24T17:08:32","slug":"allee-willis-kitsch-o-the-day-ultra-fancy-tote-bag","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/allee-willis-kitsch-o-the-day-ultra-fancy-tote-bag\/","title":{"rendered":"Allee Willis Kitsch O’ The Day – Ultra Fancy Cheeeeap Tote Bag"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nI beg to differ with the quotation “You can’t make a silk purse out of a sow’s ear”. I offer as proof this ungodly garish tote bag I picked up at the Mexican swap meet the other day, belted and sequined within an inch of its sow eared life and a stunning example of one of my favorite genres of kitsch –  when someone takes something so pathetically plain Jane most people wouldn’t give it a second look and attempts to make it look like something that would accompany one to a dinner at the White House, the Academy Awards or  some other such fancy dress affair.<\/p>\n\"tote-bag-glitter,-belt_4565\"\n

I always love a bag with a nice belt.<\/p>\n\"tote-bag-glitter,-belt_4566\"\n

The back of the bag remains completely pee yellow and lifeless.<\/p>\n\"tote-bag-glitter,-belt_4568\"\n

There’s so much synthetic fabric on the inside of the bag it becomes almost impossible to get anything out without getting your hand entangled in fabric. I just pray for limb extraction without a fabric rip though the danger of a nice big scratch is ever present as whatever synthetic fabric this is so rough against the skin.<\/p>\n\"tote-bag-glitter,-belt_4569\"\n

With all of its limitations I still give it an A for effort and wear it proudly.<\/p>\n\"tote-bag-glitter,-belt_4578\"\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I beg to differ with the quotation “You can’t make a silk purse out of a sow’s ear”. I offer as proof this ungodly garish tote bag I picked up at the Mexican swap meet the other day, belted and sequined within an inch of its sow eared life and a stunning example of one … read more »<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[317,131,1051,87,193],"tags":[61,1775,3232,3245,1777,1749],"class_list":["post-20137","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-accessories","category-creativity","category-fashion","category-kitsch","category-kitsch-o-the-day","tag-allee-willis","tag-jeweled-tote","tag-kitsch","tag-kitsch-o-the-day","tag-sequin-tote","tag-sequined-tote-bag"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20137","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20137"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20137\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20137"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20137"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20137"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}