wild thing

velvet dress: vintage ice skater uniform
shoes: urban renewal
leggings: idk
bone necklace: mother
ring: beauty supply (lawls)

boom boom boom bing. this look really made my heart sing. I really felt like I belonged on the flintstones or in the wild. I actually wore this on my recent romantic christmas dinner out, and I was a bit frustrated that I could not snap my look before the sun went down. LUCKILY, I was able to snap this pictures in the perfect local: THE ZOO! Don't I fit right in? It looks like an editorial set! HAHAH!

I actually found this dress in the halloween costume area of the thrift store, but I'm sure it used to be an ice skaters uniform, whichever, its super cute, and ultra velvety. I've been lusting over a velvet mini for years. I had to add my own personal spin to it, so with my new spunky shorter hair I've been playing with Japanese sweet style pig tails. It's a little bit of 80s meets japan which is a wonder combo. The necklace is actually a hand me down from my mom's afro centric days in the early 90s~ fight the power!

So my look is Pebbles meets ice skater meets 80s meets japan meets goth....yeah that sounds about right.

Plus to top things off, Dave whisked me away to my favorite Indian restaurant in chicago! The Standard Indian Restaurant. I LOOOOOOOVE this place, and he even surprised me with sparkling wine. Dave is full of surprises this year! I love that he keeps me guessing ;)

zoo lights

Dave + I went to Zoo lights at Lincoln Park Zoo, in my hood over the weekend. I was going to have that party & if you follow my tweets you'd know I was freakin out over it. But instead, we decided to cancel all our plans and just be big kids for the holiday. I think this was truly the best idea. We snapped tons of pics, photoboothed (yay), walk around, then after we got too cold went to my favorite vegetarian restaurant in the city.

What I love about zoo lights is its free, so you don't feel obligated to stay! Just look around then run away! My french club used to volunteer there when I was in High School, so it did bring up old memories...(of knowing french, lol, grandmere, desoleeeee)

At the cafe I got some veggie chili (yum) and then some tofu tostadas.... sooo good. They do tofu right here, its not like "thanks for the erasers :/" (I think I'll do a hip city review of chicago soon like Veronica, tell u more of cool places in the city like this.)

(what i wore, fyi, blouse-zara, shorts-UO, sweater-vintage,

thigh highs-american apparel, boots- steve madden)

It was overall a lovely night and I'm glad that I just decided to just have a quiet intimate night than just running around overwhelmed at a party and people messing up my house, ha!

Anyway, Ive been snapping away so much recently, I'm going to keep with the photo diary style for a while and see how it reflects on my blog? Do you like this style? Or prefer more yappity yap?

Stay warm loves...