After purchasing five pairs of nearly identical black mary janes with a heel on-line (you might ask why someone with hard to fit feet would purchase shoes on-line, but then you might not fully fathom how very few size 11 narrow shoes one can find in a small town in rural Oklahoma), I ended up taking a pair of black suede ankle boots I've owned for years with me to New York. My taller black boots with heels would have looked better, but then I would have had no room to bring home the jar of granola from Eleven Madison Park in my carry-on luggage.
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| Purple socks and steel grey tights with just a bit of shimmer |
I wore my flow-y bias cut dress to the opera and loved it. If I looked terribly 1999 I didn't know it because 1) I don't exactly recall this sort of dress ever being really in and 2) it was the opera in New York City. The opera is full of rich people, artsy-types and tourists; if they could agree as to what is in style, they certainly all wouldn't want to wear it. After trying on several wrap and jacket options, I went with the terribly expensive piece of two-toned silk I bought to wear with this dress years ago. Definitely not following any trend, but it makes me feel opulent. The Mister looked dashing on the quintessential autumn evening.
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| Yes, that is Curious George tie. |
The next day I wore black pants, a drape-y gray top and black lace-ups to the four hour lunch. I wore a long black skirt and a black silk top to the theater, while the Mister lost the tie, but looked largely the same.
"Enough about what you wore, what did you see?" you may be thinking. Well, we saw Carmen at the Metropolitan Opera House at Lincoln Center, which was fabulous (and I only fell asleep for a little while in the third act). The puppet show was War Horse, which was also fabulous, and the puppetry really amazing. The skill it takes for three (completely visible) people to work together to so convincingly animate a horse puppet is quite something to behold. And we saw the prairie turnips at the American Museum of Natural History, of course.
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| Major tourist site checked off! |
As to what we ate, well I will leave you in a cloud of suspense until I have time to blog again.
I wore my flow-y bias cut dress to the opera and loved it. If I looked terribly 1999 I didn't know it because 1) I don't exactly recall this sort of dress ever being really in and 2) it was the opera in New York City. The opera is full of rich people, artsy-types and tourists; if they could agree as to what is in style, they certainly all wouldn't want to wear it. After trying on several wrap and jacket options, I went with the terribly expensive piece of two-toned silk I bought to wear with this dress years ago. Definitely not following any trend, but it makes me feel opulent. The Mister looked dashing on the quintessential autumn evening.
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As to fashion trends in NYC-- less black than I expected, except among umbrellas (all black), many people were inexplicably dressed for winter on warm fall days, skirts seem to be just at the knee (very few very short and very few long), boots (mostly flat) are everywhere and women on the subway and the street wear practical footwear.
You look absolutely gorgeous!!!! Thanks for sharing the update on clothing and activities. I'm very intrigued by the smokey thing.
Beautiful! Isn't it great when you have just the right outfit in your closet! Who has time to shop?
Sounds like a wonderful NYC holiday!
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