My favourite party dress and Givenchy-inspired layered necklaces

It's not often that I get the opportunity to wear this dress, but when I do it's always a great time and last night was no exception. The reason I'm all fancied up is that G and I attended a send-off/farewell party for a very close friend who will soon be going halfway across the country for an indefinite but surely extended period of time; as such, the event was somewhat happy and sad all at once, but there was a lot of happy in there, so I'm counting it as a technically 'great time' anyways.

So I've determined that this dress is, without a doubt, the best thing I have ever found on a Club Monaco sale rack, and unknowingly so at the time of purchase. When it was bought by yours truly two years ago I merely liked the drop-waist 1920's Gothic ballerina style of it (do those terms even make sense together?) and the sale price, as I remember desperately needing a party dress that day for a reason which escapes me now. I didn't even try it on, but then again I rarely do when shopping.

Two years later, and this dress continues to be one of my favourite things in my closet. The crumply crepe-like bubble skirt (you can seriously manipulate it into whatever shape you want it to be!), the various shoulder straps, the sheer overlay...there's a lot about this riff on the LBD that pretty much shouldn't work under any circumstances, but somehow it does and it's fabulous...or at the very least I feel fabulous in it.

As you've no doubt noticed, there has been an increasing amount of indoor photos recently, due to the fact that it looks like this outside:
Not only is this causing a lack of outdoor daily outfit photos, it's also making me congested and unable to breathe through my nose properly. My, my, how horribly jealous I am of all of you Australians right now, what with the beginning of glorious summer and whatnot.

Wearing

The black chiffon, crepe and silk party dress is from Club Monaco.

I'm wearing tons of various necklaces, all of which are from one of the following four places: my mom's jewelry boxes, vintage shops, made by me, or H&M.

I've no idea where my little white socks are from.

The black patent platform wedges (a.k.a. my favourite shoes of all time) are from H&M.