Thanksgiving Outfit

Hello everybody, I hope that you enjoyed your turkey yesterday and you are recovering fine today!

We spent Thanksgiving at our friend's parents in the Upper West Side, who organize a big family gathering that starts at noon and ends with the traditional (delicious) Thanksgiving dinner. This is the second year that they invite us and even if we get to see them just on Thanksgiving day they have become our "surrogate" family here in the US and we are very grateful that they have decided to adopt the three of us.

Last year I wore the Victoria long-sleeved white shirt and a pair of matchstick cords and I was WAY overdressed compared to the other guests. This year I wanted to play it down so I ended up wearing an outfit that I already wore a couple of weeks ago and thought it was cute without being overdone:





The tee under the Michelle cardigan is last spring rosette tee. I haven't worn this tee much for two reasons: first because I bought it too late in the season (May, I think) and it's not a summer tee in my opinion; second, because I didn't have any cardigan in a pink shade to wear with it. After wearing this outfit the first time, I realized that I didn't need the Slub cotton faded floral tee and I returned it. Even if I still do think that it's perfect with the dusty blossom perfect pencil skirt I don't wear skirts in general and that one in particular so much to justify the FP purchase of a tee just to wear with it and with other outfits I can get away with the original rosette tee with the same results.

I knew that nobody would wear jewelry but I couldn't resist wearing the F21 pearl necklace that I bought from Gigi in the spring. This necklace is one of the best that I have and you couldn't beat the price (something like $9).
I was still a little bit overdressed but I preferred it this way.

Our Black Friday is very Hi-Tech oriented this year. We had planned to checkout the doorbuster deals at BestBuy.com (as you probably remember we went flat-screen shopping last Saturday but we decided to wait for the Black Friday deals before buying). My daughter, who is always up by 6-6.30 decided to oversleep this morning, of all the mornings, so not only we missed all the "doorbuster deals" on the Internet but the TV screen that we had decided to buy sold-out at our local BestBuy and the other uptown stores and my husband had to go all the way downtown to get one (my husband is very handy so we didn't want to pay the shipping and installation, store pick-up and a taxi ride is just fine). Finally, we decided not to go with a LED screen because for the size that we needed (a 40') there isn't much difference in quality image between the LED and LCD technologies (but if you go up in size the difference is remarkable). The rest of the day was spent in installing the TV and now I'm off to Best Buy again to get a Playstation so we can watch the DVDs that we rented for the weekend (Pixar's "UP" is part of the lineup). Wish me luck, this is the worst time of the year (Black Friday at 4 in the afternoon) to be out there!

I almost forgot that I DO have a glamorous party tomorrow night (even if technically it isn't a holiday party but a 40th birthday party of a friend who rented a room in one of the best restaurant in the city), I will post pics on Monday.
Have a great rest of Thanksgiving weekend!