Giddy Tigers

Over the weekend, I had not one, not two, but THREE opportunities to doll myself up and look pretty. Now, this would not seem like a daunting task for some people, but for me, this task now requires some thinking and planning, since embracing motherhood means I need to factor in the inevitable need to run after Ethan, and yet look demurely sexy and charming at the same time.

How now, brown cow?

Dress-Up session #1
Friday evening, we drove to Sungai Petani for my BIL’s wedding reception – actually it was a wedding dinner that was hosted primarily by the bride’s side. I chose to wear a black figure-hugging tube dress with embroidered flower details on the top and bottom of the dress. I’ve had this dress for close to ten years, I think…so I was mighty glad I could still pull the look off. Of course, the risk that came with wearing a tube dress and caring for a mighty active toddler was that there is a high chance some things that are not to be revealed will be revealed. So to prevent that from happening, I took Susan’s advice and brought along a shawl. I made sure it was an opaque shawl, so that whenever I needed to, I just draped it over my shoulders and it certainly did its job well. I chose to wear my maroon pashmina shawl (a gift from hubbs all the way from India); the maroon shawl was to offset the black and plus, it went well with the little red flowers on my dress. The night was pretty chilly too, so the shawl was a saviour.

This is a picture taken before the dinner started, while we were hanging out at my hubby’s distant uncle’s house near the dinner venue.

Dress-Up session #2
The church wedding ceremony was on Saturday afternoon. After donning a black outfit the night before, I decided to glam it up a little for church. After all, my hubby was gonna be wearing a suit! So I wore a knee-length orange spaghetti-strap batik dress, sewn with intricate beads and sequins. I hardly wear this dress because I’m afraid that Ethan might pull out the beads or sequins, but I decided to take the risk this time round, assuming that I would not need to carry him around much anyway (hubby can do the honors 😀 ). Now the v-neckline for this dress was a tricky one with a toddler around, so I had to add a tube top and a matching orange shawl for drama. After all, there was bound to be video and photo footage of me in this attire, what with me being one of the cantors and also there was the tea ceremony after the church wedding and all…..might as well stand out 😀

Here’s me tickling Ethan silly before the church ceremony started. Don’t really like the angle of my face in that picture, but it does show a good view of the dress.

Dress-Up session #3
For the dinner reception at g Hotel, I decided to go grecian goddess-like, but not wearing white though. I opted for a halter straight-cut long black dress, and accessorized with a chunky purple-jaded bangle and round silver decorative dangling earrings. And since the guests had seen me in the same hairstyle over the last two sessions, I did my hair up a tad differently by putting half of it up in a simple twist-n-pin bun, decorating it simply with three floral two-legged pins, all the while praying hard it would stay up for the entire night (and it did!).

And of course, *Cinderella* must have a *Prince Charming*, yes?

Of the three outfits, I actually found the halter dress the most versatile to wear whilst caring for a toddler. I could even dance around without the need to pull here or tug there. And I even could do a nappy change in it.

Highly recommended. Think I’ll go get myself some more halter dresses. And halter tops. And halter whatevers. Plus, I love the bare-backed sexiness halters exude. Donchafinkso?