Can This Top Save This Skirt?

A while ago I ordered the Jardin maxi in aqua morning. I am not proud of this but all of a sudden I got a little bit obsessed with this skirt for no particular reason, other than seeing it on Audreybella in this post. I had tried the other colorway in store the day it went on sale because my ps had put it aside for me but I didn't like the blue as much so I left it at the store and started stalking the aqua online. It was sold-out for a long time but, as everything, one day it popped back in a 0 while I was looking and I ordered it even if it was still FP on the website. Then I did the silliest thing: I took it to the store still in its plastic bag to get a price adjustment WITHOUT EVEN TRYING IT ON. The stores were running a 30% off which sealed the sale as final. That's how much I liked the idea of this skirt.
In the reality of things, I wore it a couple of times to run errands back in June but as the temperatures went up I couldn't bear the idea of carrying around all that fabric (even if it is very lightweight) and I stopped wearing it. Also, I didn't feel particularly elegant in it, quite the opposite in fact, due to the wrinkle factor and an intrinsec frumpiness of the skirt.
I went with the biggest of my two sizes, a 0 instead of a 00. It is a little bit loose in the waist but that was intended because I think that even if it is supposed to sit at the waist exactly, it is more flattering if there is a little bit of looseness around the waist when you tuck in. Not sure if it makes sense now that I write it, better in pictures:

This is the best outfit I could come up with BTW. I also wore it with my short-sleeve sweatshirt but it looked better IRL than in these pics (the short-sleeve sweatshirt tends to stretch out during the day so the outfit looks a bit frumpy here):

As summer went by and the skirt was left unworn I got a little bit mad at myself for loosing my sleep on it in the first place. What was I thinking? I KNEW that it was difficult to pull off for a petite like me and I should have know even better because I had bought and returned the midi Jardin last year on the account of frumpiness.
If I look back and try to analyze this purchase and what triggered it, I realize that I loved that particular outfit that Audreybella wore, not the skirt per se. I liked that skirt with that anchor top and the skirt couldn't make up for the entire outfit. I was never into that anchor top though and I resisted it even if it was very popular and when it went on sale my store still had it in my size for the longest time.
However, I always liked the Colorblock sequin tank that I tried a couple of times in store. At that time I didn't know that I needed this top to make the skirt work and I didn't want to add any more sequins to my closet, but when it went on sale recently and with 30% off on top of that (and no fs) I ordered it as a ride-along to try with the skirt. I ordered a XXS, which is the smallest of my top size. The XXS fits perfectly but it is definitively shorter than the XS that I tried in store (that was a looser fit and longer, without being too low-cut).
So, back to the title of this post, can this top save this skirt? What do you think?

I think this is a dreamy outfit and it is worth the additional $35 spent on the tank.
For some reasons it reminds me of the Great Gatsby: if Gatsby were to throw a party in modern-day East Egg (aka Sandy Points, NY, where I have recently been) I would definitively wear this. But since I have no party to go, I will just take it on vacation with me on the Riviera (the Italian one, not the French) and read "Tender is the night" to console myself.

I have a couple of posts for you and then I am off for three weeks (Milan, Riviera and Paris, the packing is going to be challanging), stay tuned!