The Cecilia is Back and Goes Out for Drinks

OK, so you were right, the weekend is not as bad as I thought, so far. It had a very good start yesterday when my husband was still here and we really took advantage of the beautiful summer day. First we had a picnic in the park, the first of the season, then we met friends at the boathouse for drinks before heading all together to one of our favorite restaurants in the neighborhood, where they serve delicious French food and have one of the best terraces for the warm months. My daughter and their son were with us and they had a blast running on the sidewalk, they were really a joy to watch. I almost felt like we were in Italy and not in NYC!

I don't know if there is anyone out there who keeps track of my purchases and returns but if you remember I had returned the Cecilia dress to finance the Rebecca Taylor nouveau ballet dress. I thought that I would try to re-buy the Cecilia on sale but the last time that I checked my size was sold-out in the NYC stores. Well, for one of those serendipitous shopping moments, the other day I saw it in my size in a store. AND it was on sale. AND there was a 30% off, so it is now back in my closet for a third of its original price.

Yesterday was an ideal day to wear this dress. Not only we had an occasion (yes, drinks with friends IS an occasion good enough to dress up) but the boathouse setting and the weather, sunny but breezy, conjured up to be the perfect backdrop for the dress. At some point it was really windy and the dress "took the wind" like a sailboat. It was a nice sensation to feel it blowing around but not to have to worry about people seeing my panties thanks to the incorporated slip.
The boathouse at 6 in the evening on a sunny summer day is just drop-dead gorgeous and I regret not taking pictures, the light was almost unreal like in an ipmressionist painting (not to mention that the subject, a group of people by a pond with rowboats and weeping trees is the most impressionist subject by itself). Well, I did take a picture but we were already leaving and this is all what I could catch:

I also took plenty of pictures of my daughter, that cutie pie, but I don't have a picture of me in the Cecilia, so you will have to do with the pics in the mirror:

This is a size 0 (like the first one that I had bought). I have to say that at the end of the evening the fabric of the bodice had stretched out a little bit so that it was a little bit looser around my cheast, but I think that that can be solved by taking the straps a little bit. I didn't remember that it had pockets and I found them very handy yesterday night as I wasn't carrying a bag!

My perfectly matching but imperfectly applied nail polish (I gave myself a quick pedicure just before leaving) is Nars Huster, that was very popular when it came out a few years ago (I remember that when I found one bottle at Barney I felt like I had found the Graal). This is from that same old bottle and I remembered it to be a little bit more orange-y; maybe with time the orange component evaporated, I don't know enough about polishes to say. In any case it is almost the same orange-red than the retro orange of the Cecilia:

And here is my cutie pie (wearing Gymboree):

This morning we went early to the playground and my daughter had fun splashing in the water and this afternoon I have a babysitter coming and I am going to chop off my hair and have a long overdue color, so I can say that I am surviving.

How is your Memorial Day weekend going so far?