{"id":103,"date":"2009-03-14T19:58:13","date_gmt":"2009-03-14T19:58:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/gap\/wp\/?p=103"},"modified":"2009-03-14T19:58:13","modified_gmt":"2009-03-14T19:58:13","slug":"fashion_fantasy_cue_music","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/gap\/2009\/03\/fashion_fantasy_cue_music\/","title":{"rendered":"Fashion Fantasy (Cue Music)"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image\" style=\"display: inline;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"dress.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/gap\/dress.jpg\" class=\"mt-image-right\" style=\"margin: 0pt 0pt 20px 20px; float: right;\" height=\"300\" width=\"123\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Year&#8217;s before <i>Seinfeld<\/i> name-checked the clothier, we used to get the&nbsp; J. Peterman Company catalog in the mail. My 12-year-old self would scan its 60-some pages of fantasy fashion  and dream the marketing dream they had carefully crafted for me, right on target. Thankfully, I was too young to have my own credit card or it might have gotten ugly.<\/p>\n<p>In a fit of nostalgia, I signed up to get the catalog again, and what should I find therein but &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/jpeterman.com\/product%7Ecat%7E110201%7Esku%7EWDR+2351.asp\">The New Music<\/a>&#8221; dress.  According to the catalog note, Peterman first saw the dress at the opera. <i>Dr. Atomic <\/i>wasn&#8217;t what made the night worth his time, however.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>You made it through Parsifal, Peterman, I keep reminding myself. Then I notice her next to me. She&#8217;s leaning forward intently. Emotions flicker across her face, her hands make small conducting gestures; she&#8217;s clearly enchanted. After the bomb goes off and the lights come up, she cries &#8220;Bravo!&#8221; and flashes me a brilliant smile. &#8220;Wasn&#8217;t that wonderful?&#8221; she asks. The sight of her in this dress is almost enough to persuade me to give Sch\u00c3\u00b6nberg a second chance.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Note to Nico: Maybe you should cut a deal with this guy to market those <a href=\"http:\/\/bedroomcommunity.net\/myspaceimages\/nicocoffee460x360.jpg\">striped shirts<\/a> you fancy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Year&#8217;s before Seinfeld name-checked the clothier, we used to get the&nbsp; J. Peterman Company catalog in the mail. My 12-year-old self would scan its 60-some pages of fantasy fashion and dream the marketing dream they had carefully crafted for me, right on target. Thankfully, I was too young to have my own credit card or [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-103","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorized","7":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/gap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/gap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/gap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/gap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/gap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=103"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/gap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/gap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=103"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/gap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=103"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/gap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=103"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}