The Evolution Of A Resolution

voltee ♦ December 29, 2010 ♦ 8 Comments

Item: Dress Color/Fabric: Dijon mustard, silk/polyester Designer: Nicole Miller Where Purchased: Next Boutique Years Owned: Three

Ah, home sweet home! It is nice to be back in New York, with my kitties and my closets. But it felt like such a short stay with my family, due to the stomach thing. And please know, Maria, that the stomach flu cannot even prevent me from the Holiday Feast! It was a warm and wonderful Christmas, basking in the love of my family, and consuming baked goods like the world might end.
I only wish it could have been longer. I feel robbed of the days when I was zombie-esque.
But now I need to set my sights on the next impending Holiday, New Year’s Day.
I feel like I may need to compose a spread sheet for my New Year’s resolutions this year. At the very least, a pie chart of some kind.
I need to make myself a road map for 2011. I am tired of getting myself lost.
In the meantime, another dress!
I love this one. It is not your typical sugary-sweet cocktail dress. Even though it does have a huge floppy bow on it. The bow is off center, so it kind of lends a more laid back feel to the dress.
I watched girl after girl after girl try this dress on at Next. And everyone just found it sort of odd.
I like odd. We happen to be great friends.
And so I was able to purchase this late in the Winter Sale, for a paltry sum.
I’ve only worn this once. It was to a wedding- the wedding of our dear friend Jason to his adorable pixieish hairdresser/fiancée Erica. Jason used to be called Louie, and he was on the gymnastics team with Nate at Michigan State. He also was a roommate of ours for many years.
I’ve never wanted anyone to find true love more than Louie, and he actually succeeded! They are a perfect couple and I miss them.
It was a summer wedding, and I could not have been more excited to wear this dress. Because I knew that I would wear it with my all-time most beloved pair of shoes.
That is a huge, huge statement for me to make. I have had love affairs with many a pair of shoes.
But none move me the way that these shoes do. Here, a glimpse:

Please note the details. The elegant pleating across the toe. The gold lining. The angular yet graceful heel. Oh, what a beauteous symphony!
I found these at Marshall’s, in one of those rare high end department store buy outs. I loved them the second I first laid eyes on them. The love doubled, and mixed with awe, when I discovered that they were crafted by Yves Saint Laurent, one of my most revered designers.
I did pay more for them than any other pair of shoes I’ve ever known, but it was still just a fraction of their original $880 price tag. I could not convince myself to buy them, until Nate finally convinced me that I couldn’t live without them.
He was right.
I wish that you could touch these, I really do. They are the softest, most buttery leather I’ve ever touched. Sometimes when I am sad I hold them and pet them. It helps. But I’m terrified of ruining them.
So I think I’ve only worn them twice.
That is going to be one of my resolutions for 2011. I will not be like a little old lady who covers her couch with plastic so that it doesn’t get ruined, and never actually enjoys the couch. How comfortable is it to sit on plastic?
No.
I will wear my things! I will enjoy them! Without fear!
And, should I happen to ruin something, I will not cry. Much. They are, after all, merely material possessions.
Anyway.
Jason and Erica’s wedding was quite lovely. Also very hot. They got married on top of a mountain in Pennsylvania, and there was no shelter from the blinding, scorching, summer sun.
At least I didn’t have to wear a tux! Nate did, though:

Oh, I also love those earrings. I wore them for the tango scene in Evita. They will always be my Tango earrings. But they looked great with this outfit!
It was a fantastic, festive event. I love weddings. I have been to so many that I can’t even keep track, including being Maid of Honor twice, and a bridesmaid four times.
It seems like the wedding train is slowing down, as almost everyone I know is married.
Well, I’m ready to get back on. Plan some weddings, people!
I love this dress. I love the texture of it, almost like a deflated balloon, and I love the quirkiness of it. I would like to keep it and try for some non-wedding related wear.

**I adore this dress. I can’t wait to wear it again, someday!