{"id":326,"date":"2011-12-22T14:54:00","date_gmt":"2011-12-22T14:54:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/elsaoutofthebox.com\/2011\/12\/an-unexpected-surprise\/"},"modified":"2011-12-22T14:54:00","modified_gmt":"2011-12-22T14:54:00","slug":"an-unexpected-surprise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elsaoutofthebox.com\/?p=326","title":{"rendered":"An unexpected surprise"},"content":{"rendered":"<div dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Last week I received an unexpected e-mail from one of my favourite e-shops,<a href=\"http:\/\/www.matchesfashion.com\/\"> Matches Fashion<\/a>. The theme of the e-mail was &#8220;congatulations&#8221; and it informed me that I was the winner of<span lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-family: &quot;Georgia&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;; font-size: 10pt;\"> a Diane by Diane von Furstenberg dress through a Matches competition in collaboration with Vogue, which ran the previous week.<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-family: &quot;Georgia&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;; font-size: 10pt;\">I can&#8217;t describe how happy this made me, especially because the day I got the e-mail was my birthday.<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-family: &quot;Georgia&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;; font-size: 10pt;\">At first I thought that somebody was fooling with me, but after contacting with them they assured me that I was the lucky one!<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-family: &quot;Georgia&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;; font-size: 10pt;\">So today my amazing New Julian dress is finally here wrapped in a fantastic Matches Fashion box!<\/span><\/div>\n<p><span lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-family: &quot;Georgia&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;; font-size: 10pt;\"><br \/><\/span><\/p>\n<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/elsaoutofthebox.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/IMG_43381.jpg\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" border=\"0\" height=\"266\" src=\"http:\/\/elsaoutofthebox.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/IMG_4338.jpg\" width=\"400\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p><a name='more'><\/a><\/p>\n<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/elsaoutofthebox.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/IMG_43391.jpg\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" border=\"0\" height=\"266\" src=\"http:\/\/elsaoutofthebox.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/IMG_4339.jpg\" width=\"400\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/elsaoutofthebox.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/IMG_43401.jpg\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" border=\"0\" height=\"266\" src=\"http:\/\/elsaoutofthebox.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/IMG_4340.jpg\" width=\"400\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/elsaoutofthebox.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/IMG_43411.jpg\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" border=\"0\" height=\"266\" src=\"http:\/\/elsaoutofthebox.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/IMG_4341.jpg\" width=\"400\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>And here are some shots of the dress.<\/p>\n<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/elsaoutofthebox.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/IMG_43421.jpg\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" border=\"0\" height=\"640\" src=\"http:\/\/elsaoutofthebox.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/IMG_4342.jpg\" width=\"426\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/elsaoutofthebox.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/IMG_43441.jpg\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" border=\"0\" height=\"266\" src=\"http:\/\/elsaoutofthebox.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/IMG_4344.jpg\" width=\"400\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/elsaoutofthebox.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/IMG_43451.jpg\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" border=\"0\" height=\"640\" src=\"http:\/\/elsaoutofthebox.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/IMG_4345.jpg\" width=\"426\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>The iconic DvF wrap dress, is a  pure silk piece in  navy color with light-green leaves! I think it&#8217;s the perfect dress that every woman should have in her closet and wear from day to night! You can find it <a href=\"http:\/\/www.matchesfashion.com\/fcp\/product\/Matches-Fashion\/Dresses\/diane-by-diane-von-furstenberg-dvf-c-d2765001v11r-dresses-NAVY\/54411\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/elsaoutofthebox.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/New-Julian-Dress1.jpg\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" border=\"0\" height=\"640\" src=\"http:\/\/elsaoutofthebox.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/New-Julian-Dress.jpg\" width=\"480\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;Thank you so much Matches Fashion! You really made this birthday unforgetable!<\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-family: &quot;Georgia&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;; font-size: 10pt;\"><br \/><\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last week I received an unexpected e-mail from one of my favourite e-shops, Matches Fashion. The theme of the e-mail was &#8220;congatulations&#8221; and it informed me that I was the winner of a Diane by Diane von Furstenberg dress through a Matches competition in collaboration with Vogue, which ran the previous week. I can&#8217;t describe&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/elsaoutofthebox.com\/?p=326\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">An unexpected surprise<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2291,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[140,295,312,557,596,599,700,786,873,1193],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/elsaoutofthebox.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/326"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/elsaoutofthebox.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/elsaoutofthebox.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elsaoutofthebox.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elsaoutofthebox.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=326"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/elsaoutofthebox.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/326\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elsaoutofthebox.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2291"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/elsaoutofthebox.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=326"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elsaoutofthebox.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=326"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elsaoutofthebox.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=326"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}