I have a family barbecue coming up. We've been asked to wear dressier than normal clothes because pictures will be taken (60th wedding anniversary celebration). I am toying with breaking out my new pink pearls over a column of black. The cargo pants are iffy. They are on the verge of not staying up on their own any more and a belt would rather ruin the line, it seems to me. I do have black pants I can wear if it's cooler, as well as black jeans and black ponte-knit clamdiggers. I can always change after pictures if the best combination isn't weather-appropriate.

The vest is a pashmina tied using Vix's scarf dress technique, leaving the belt off.

What do you think? Is this too quirky? Are the platforms too much or too dated? Is the combination just too weird? Just about anything here can be swapped out.

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