Weekly Wears: To the Ballet

I took the girls to the ballet a few weeks ago and wore this dress.  It's fun to get all dressed up with the little gals and do something fancy just the three of us.  This year we saw The Nutcracker and it was lovely.  Poesy's finally getting to an age where she doesn't wear down by intermission, so this was our most pleasant ballet date so far.

Coat: c/o Salvage Life;  Dress: c/o ModCloth;  Brooch: vintage (gift from Johnny);  Unicorn Clutch: c/o ModCloth;  Tights: Target;  Shoes: Jeffrey Campbell

I almost ended up wearing this dress on New Year's Eve as well.  Our band was playing a show that night, I was running late (of course), and was getting dressed when my zipper completely busted in the dress I was planning to wear.  Like, the metal zip part completely came off.  I didn't have time to entirely replace the zipper (again, I was running SUPER late) and I was freaking out.  I was hell-bent on wearing that dress, though, so I sewed up the entire side where the zipper was supposed to be, and shimmied my way into that dress.  Later that night, with some assistance, I had to be cut out of that dress.  Hey, man-- sometimes you just wanna wear the dress you planned on wearing.  ;)