Flamenco Night Outfit

So after reading all your comments to my Monday post, an hour before the event I was down to two options. You made me reconsider the Jardin jacket and I worked a little bit to perfect outfit #3. I liked nobelle's suggestion to try the Minnie pants with the jacket, but in the end I still liked more how it looked with the curator pants. I think I achieved the perfect matador look, what do you think?



As you can notice I had traded the Loft scoopneck tee for a short-sleeved turtleneck tee, because I was afraid that I would freeze at the boathouse.
But in the end I didn't wear this outfit, I wore outfit #2 (with the same turtleneck). I was still undecided but my husband stormed in our bedroom while I was trying the outfit with the BR jacket and said "You look gorgeous" and that sealed the deal for me. Plus, I had a red manicure that afternoon and I was feeling like wearing something red, even if only a flower pin or my lipstick.
Here is a pic that took just before leaving (the shoes are an old pair of Free Lance that I had for at least 15 years and they are possibly my husband's favorite shoes, surprisingly):



Truth to be told, in the sea of red and black at the party my Jardin jacket would have stood out but I felt very comfortable in my outfit and that's the important thing, right? There were a very few ladies who didn't play the game but honestly why would you wear a pinkish chiffon gown at a flamenco party (it could have been the most beautiful gown but I think it was lame).

We arrived at the Boathouse walking in the evening through a snowed Central Park and that was already a pretty fairy experience (the lake at the boathouse was a white stretch of ice with a lonely blue-lighted tree at the center). The setting at the Boathouse was beautiful (they had rented the entire space) and the flamenco touches (like red fans for the guests) put everyone in a good mood. The buffet-style food was delicious (with three different kind of paella as main course) and we had a lot of fun.
Now, the goal of the evening was to raise money for the school through auctions on various items solicitated by the parents or the school itself. There were some big ticket items that were clearly out of our range and were sold through a live auction but most of them were silent auctions whose starting bids was below $500. So we put our names here and there and we won two of them, both way below the face value.
So here is one of them just in time for Valentine's Day (incidentally that was my yesterday outfit of the day, with a very old JCrew cable sweater in a shade of blue that look particularly good with a tan, probably one of my first JCrew purchases ever):




You know that I love a pearl necklace and I really, really wanted a double strand. These are not natural pearls, they are "Majorica" faux pearls, the closest to the real thing (you can buy at Saks here. I especially love the gold clasp:



I am really pleased with this necklace, that we bought for half the advertised price and is going to benefit the school.

I am going back and reply to some of the comments now. Thank you very much to all of you who gave their advice!