I went to a concert!

Finally, finally, the moment arrived when I could cast off my COVID caution, put on my colorful clothes, and go out dancing with few hundred of my closest friends!

I was going to see Vini Vici, and I thought the colorful embroidery on the pants was a good choice to evoke the kind of music they often play. Everything else was just black, so as not to clash! Easy peasy! And that's good, because I barely had time to snap a picture in my huge rush out the door. I didn't plan for bits of my hair to be standing out like that—really.

The outfit isn't really one of my best, if you ask me, but the point is, I got to dress myself up for a show for the first time in 2 years!

I also promptly caught a cold, but it was worth it.

I got dressed up!

A momentous occasion occurred this weekend: I wore a dress for a public occasion for the first time since before COVID! It's not like I never wore a dress during the pandemic—I occasionally put one on just to work from home or for special occasions with my boyfriend, but this was the first time that I got all gussied up and stepped out beyond my front door! And so, I went for the cutesiest, most festive dress I could find!

The occasion was a friend's birthday party, so a party dress, complete with tulle petticoat, was in order! But because I was in the mood for something truly one-of-a-kind and avant-garde, if you will, I decided against the traditional and safe sandals, and went with calf-high white boots!

On top, some dogwood flower earrings in a matching aqua hue finished off the look. I was pretty pleased with this one. The party host told me I looked beautiful, and I even matched the balloons!

Pearls before Wine

 

A lot has happened since I made my last Unfashion post: In March, I had an upsetting breakup which triggered insomnia which just never resolved, so I haven't had much energy for blogging. Other things that happened, though, were that most COVID closings and restrictions started getting rolled back, and I began dating again, which means I've had lots of opportunities to go out and get dressed up. So it's not for lack of outfits that my blog has been a desolate wasteland—just lack of motivation!

I have been taking a lot of outfit photos and then feeling too tired to share them. I probably wouldn't have posted this one either, but for one reason that I'm going to withhold for a few more paragraphs.

The focal point of this outfit is the shirt, a pearl-studded affair with a choker-like strip across the neckline. Pearl-studded everything, along with this style of shirt, both had their heyday around 2017, so it's appropriate that the ever-late Unfashonista finally got to try both of them four years past their prime. I was almost too embarrassed to wear such an obvious throwback, but I needed some fresh new tops for all the dates I've been going on, and I figured most men aren't aware enough of fashion to notice.

I ended up not wearing the shirt for a date at all, but for a winery visit with some friends—and the sole reason for this choice was so I could use the phrase "Pearls before Wine" as a title on a blog post. The shirt is even wine-colored, so it works on many levels!

Phew! I'm glad I achieved that goal and somehow managed to hammer out this narrative! Now back to my regularly scheduled sleep-deprived daze!

Naturally I had to wear pearl earrings!