vomit covered love bubble: gold lace dress +bolero

I have worn this dress once. Aged 27. To a friend's wedding. My daughter was 4 months old and vomited on it between the ceremony and the reception, which is probably quite good timing. Better than during either of the above.

I bought it while pregnant. It wasn't all that cheap. I can only think that this is an example of the effect of hormones. Either that or my daughter's father's influence. He encouraged me to buy it. I can think of no other explanation of why I would buy something so horrible. Possibly on someone else it would be pretty. I have olive skin and brown hair, I think it looks dreadful.

I'm not sure what I should do with it.

When I look back on that time I see myself in a vomit covered love bubble ( singing, contenting, clothes washing, breast feeding, sleep deprived and happy). Calm & contented- feeling like I was achieving all that was required of me, and doing rather well. As for the dress: I machine washed it, and it is dry clean only. So the lace has sort of shrunk. It is possible I was making quite a lot of mistakes in this time, but the sleep deprivation and lovely breast feeding hormomes may have pushed all that past contemplation. Hoorah for oxytocin.