Saturday Night Outfit (Taking out the Beaded Ribbon Top)

So we were invited to a 40th birthday party Saturday night in one of the best restaurant of the city (where my friend had rented a private room). The invitation said (very promisingly) "join us to drink, eat and dance" but there was no indication of a dress code(and I checked twice). After your ovewhelming response in favor of the Brynn poplin dress in this post (by the way, I apologize for never commenting back but your opinion did make a difference) I had decided to return the Zara dress and keep the Brynn and when the invitation to the party came in the mail I thought that it would be the perfect occasion to wear it.

However, I couldn't see myself dancing in the Brynn. I tried at home (you know, dancing in front of the mirror all dressed up at two in the afternoon for the plaisure of your neighborhoods) but I was too worried about the whereabouts of my boobs to really let myself go) and wearing a dance-prohibiting dress to a party where you know that you are supposed to dance (I mean, they told me on the invitation right?) is social suicide, isn't it?
So, I ended up wearing a more dance-friendly outfit. Which you have already seen, at least a part of it, because it was one of the candidate outfits to wear at the wedding I attended in early October. Do you remember this?



Sadly my beaded ribbon top had still the tags attached (my social life this fall has been close to zero due to my husband travelling all the time), so I was very happy to finally being able to take it out.
I completed the outfit with my Zara Chanel-esque jacket. The jacket has silver threads that go really well with the ribbon top, as you can see:



I really liked that with the jacket fully zipped (that I had planned to keep on for cocktails and maybe dinner), you couldn't guess the top underneath:


Shoe-wise, I traded my pewter Mary-Janes (that would have been more festive, I will give you that) for my Miu Miu patent pumps, so this the actual outfit as I wore it:


The only problem that I had was the (absence of) necklace. The neckline of the Zara jacket is cut very low and it would have looked better with a short necklace (like a choker). However, the beading of the ribbon top is a necklace in itself and adding another necklace would have been completely wrong. So without necklace I went. What do you think, have you any idea for the next time? I think that a chiffon scarf in the same shade than the skirt or silvery would have worked, but I don't have any.

Once again I was one of the very few in the room not to wear black (I think it's going to be my trademark). Anyway we had fun and I was very comfortable in my outfit when it came to dance:



Have a great week!