{"id":13602,"date":"2021-07-08T04:07:00","date_gmt":"2021-07-08T04:07:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.secretfanbase.com\/banana\/?p=13602"},"modified":"2025-09-04T01:21:04","modified_gmt":"2025-09-04T01:21:04","slug":"somalia-skirt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.secretfanbase.com\/banana\/somalia-skirt\/","title":{"rendered":"Somalia Skirt"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.secretfanbase.com\/banana\/wp-content\/gallery\/spring1988\/spring88somalia_0.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>From spring 1988: &#8220;We were dazzled by the natural wealth of East Africa&#8217;s landscape; brick-red earth, tawny golden savannas, the faded green of endless tea fields stretching further than our eyes could see. And so we set out to capture Africa&#8217;s ancient earth tones in this skirt of airy Indian cotton. Deep of pocket and muted of hue, it evokes a store of myth and memories: ours, yours, Africa&#8217;s.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Somalia Skirt was not featured in the Summer 1988 catalog, but did appear in the Update. 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And so we set out to capture Africa&#8217;s ancient earth tones in this skirt of airy Indian cotton. Deep of pocket and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":13608,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[30,1431],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.secretfanbase.com\/banana\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13602"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.secretfanbase.com\/banana\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.secretfanbase.com\/banana\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.secretfanbase.com\/banana\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.secretfanbase.com\/banana\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13602"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.secretfanbase.com\/banana\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13602\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13997,"href":"https:\/\/www.secretfanbase.com\/banana\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13602\/revisions\/13997"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.secretfanbase.com\/banana\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13608"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.secretfanbase.com\/banana\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13602"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.secretfanbase.com\/banana\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13602"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.secretfanbase.com\/banana\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13602"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}