{"id":879,"date":"2012-01-02T22:06:00","date_gmt":"2012-01-02T22:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.secretfanbase.com\/banana\/?p=879"},"modified":"2025-09-04T01:25:46","modified_gmt":"2025-09-04T01:25:46","slug":"christmas-is-just-getting-started","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.secretfanbase.com\/banana\/christmas-is-just-getting-started\/","title":{"rendered":"Regifting: 3 Christmas Catalog covers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.secretfanbase.com\/banana\/wp-content\/gallery\/catalogs\/BRHoliday1984\/xmas1984001.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"ngg-singlepic ngg-none\" src=\"http:\/\/www.secretfanbase.com\/banana\/wp-content\/gallery\/catalogs\/BRHoliday1984\/xmas1984001.jpg\" alt=\"Banana Republic #17  Christmas 1984 American Tweed Sweater\" width=\"576\" height=\"447\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This is an interesting catalog cover because it was actually done THREE different times. The 1984 Holiday cover is a color version of the 1982 cover drawing. What&#8217;s really interesting is that the cover was repainted entirely for the 1986 Holiday Update! The 86 version is not the exact same drawing, but it&#8217;s a copy that an artist made of that drawing. Kind of cool, you can play a &#8220;what&#8217;s different&#8221; game with the images. The cat is now napping, for instance.&nbsp;All three feature a cameo by Livingstone the Zebra. They also cater to the yuppie intellectual with nods to the New Yorker magazine and the Wall St. Journal. The WSJ shows up a lot in these catalogs. The go-go 80s, doncha know.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><a class=\"shutterset_\" title=\"This 1982 Gift Catalog cover made a return appearance fully colored on the 1984 Holiday catalog. Note again Livingstone the Zebra with his bowl of kibble. \" href=\"http:\/\/www.secretfanbase.com\/banana\/wp-content\/gallery\/covers\/copy_0_BR_1982_Gift_Patricia_Ziegler.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"ngg-singlepic ngg-none alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/www.secretfanbase.com\/banana\/wp-content\/gallery\/covers\/copy_0_BR_1982_Gift_Patricia_Ziegler.jpg\" alt=\"Banana Republic 1982 Gift Catalog by Patricia Ziegler\" width=\"443\" height=\"714\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"ngg-singlepic ngg-none\" src=\"http:\/\/www.secretfanbase.com\/banana\/wp-content\/gallery\/covers\/brcover21xmas84.jpg\" alt=\"Banana Republic Catalog 21 Xmas 1984\" width=\"591\" height=\"886\"><\/p>\n<p><a class=\"shutterset_\" href=\"http:\/\/www.secretfanbase.com\/banana\/wp-content\/gallery\/covers\/BRCoversHolidayUpdate86.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"ngg-singlepic ngg-none\" src=\"http:\/\/www.secretfanbase.com\/banana\/wp-content\/gallery\/covers\/BRCoversHolidayUpdate86.jpg\" alt=\"Banana Republic Catalog Holiday Update 1986\" width=\"589\" height=\"876\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; This is an interesting catalog cover because it was actually done THREE different times. The 1984 Holiday cover is a color version of the 1982 cover drawing. What&#8217;s really interesting is that the cover was repainted entirely for the 1986 Holiday Update! The 86 version is not the exact same drawing, but it&#8217;s a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5942,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[79],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.secretfanbase.com\/banana\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/879"}],"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=879"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/www.secretfanbase.com\/banana\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/879\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5496,"href":"https:\/\/www.secretfanbase.com\/banana\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/879\/revisions\/5496"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.secretfanbase.com\/banana\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5942"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.secretfanbase.com\/banana\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=879"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.secretfanbase.com\/banana\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=879"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.secretfanbase.com\/banana\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=879"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}