The Wedding Challenge, Part II

Continuing the theme of the previous blog, I’ll describe what my daughter wore to a really dressy wedding that we went to last New Year’s Eve. She took all of her skirts out of her closet and eliminated them one by one until she whittled it down to the short black organza. Similar to mine, but the rest of our outfits were different enough so that they didn’t look anything alike. I loaned her a pair of brown tights to wear with her brown ankle boots. We still needed a brown shirt to tie it all together, which we found—an Ann Taylor wrap at a thrift store for $3.50. With some vintage jewelry that she’d gotten herself at a flea market last summer, and a brown 1950’s snakeskin clutch that I’d gotten years before at Salvation Army, we were all set to go. My earrings and her top cost a total of $11.50, and we looked fantastic.