Weekend Outfits

Hello everyone, I hope that you had a great weekend.
I wanted to start the week by sharing two evening outfits that I wore this weekend.

I wore the first one on Friday night on a yacht. For the records, it doesn't happen very often that I am invited on a yacht (especially living here in NY), but a client of my husband (from Texas) had chartered a private yacht to have a dinner cruise on the Hudson river with his family and invited my husband. I had been on a dinner cruise around Manhattan before, that's something classic that many NY companies do for Xmas parties, but this time it was just the nine of us and it was a motor boat built in 1926, with original details and decor. I didn't take pictures but I found some pics on the Internet:



This is exactly the table where we had dinner:



But what to wear, what to wear? Our guest told my husband to dress casually but I wasn't sure that the ladies (his wife and sister in law, whom I had never met before) wouldn't be all dressed up. In the end I stuck with the dress code that we were given (at least I could have said something like "My husband told me that it was casual!") and I wore a navy blouse (by Zara) and white jeans with golden accessories. What's more appropriate than white and navy on a boat, right?





I was very comfortable in my outfit and the other two ladies were dressed pretty much the same way. I have to thank my husband who dissuaded me from wearing my wedges, as not only the other ladies were wearing flats but it got also pretty shaky on the boat and I would have looked like a fool trying to keep my balance on my high-wedge sandals (especially after a few glasses of wine). Husbands aren't always wrong after all!
Everything was perfect and we spent a wonderful evening (very good company too) and I am glad that I didn't give up and tell my husband to go alone that same morning when I still hadn't found a babysitter (I found one at the last minute thanks to a friend).

On Saturday we had an early family dinner in the Meatpacking district. We walked on the HighLine with our daughter and then we went to the very popular Standard Grill, which is surprisingly kid-friendly, at least at 6 pm. Because when we eat out with our daughter I always end up dirtying my clothes, I figured that I could wear a dress that I had already wore during the week to another restaurant and got a streak of butter on it already (another stain wouldn't change anything and at least I would wear it twice before giving it to the dry cleaning). Normally I don't reason like that, but I really wanted to wear a nice dress and I didn't want to ruin another one. So here it goes, my double-stained but still fabulous H&M dress:





This dress is really gorgeous. A couple of ladies at the table next to us complimented me on it and when I told them that it was H&M they looked at me in disbelief. So I didn't tell them that it was $24.99, I let them believe that it was a $49.99 dress, lol!
I didn't wear the shoes that I am wearing in the pictures (I wore the TB Miller sandals that I am also wearing in the previous outfit) but I wanted to show them here not only because they go pretty well with the dress but also because they are the cutest flip-flops ever:



They are by the Brazilian brand Melissa and are a gift from a Brazilian friend of mine who spent the summer there and just got back. Flip-flops with a bow, what a nice gift! I had never heard of this brand before but I googled "Melissa" and found that you can get them in the US too (they are pricey though).
Now I need another beach vacation to show them off ;-).

Wha do you think of the yacht outfit? Do you wear already-stained clothes when you go out for dinner with your kids? Have you ever heard of Melissa?

Have a great week!