Last week I was honored to recieve an invite to celebrate South Africa's Freedom Day! The invitation states the dresscode to be Lounge suit/Traditional. Traditional is out since I have nothing of the sort, so Lounge suit it is. I googled lounge suit and tried to figure out what it could mean for us ladies. What would we do without the internet?!
The occasion starts at 7 pm so I'm not comfortable wearing my black business suit like I would if it started right after work (which means around 5 pm here). Also, since it's finally Spring in Finland I don't want to wear all black, for example a little black dress - we Finns wear so much black in the winter. So the conclusion was, like always in these situations, that I really don't have anything suitable in my wardrobe to wear.
Since I had some free time on Saturday, I took my bike and went to a nearby mall and had the easiest shopping experience of my life! I found the dress from the first store I went to. I also bought a bolero to go with it. Of course I checked out all the other stores as well but everything was too expensive! I owe my friend from work thanks because she suggested I go to River Company and check out what dresses they have!
I even found shoes but that was a separate shopping spree on Saturday evening :)
Here are sneak peeks at what I bought:
The cute dress and bolero
The gorgeous peek toe shoes
I had a wonderful idea about the jewelery I'd make for this dress but now it's too late to order the beads. We'll see what I come up with! For my bag, I'll just use my old DKNY clutch, which is looks quite boring but will do.
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