If you’re looking for a cropped jacket to wear over a fall, spring, or winter dress, I highly recommend a little leather number like this Sandro jacket. With an asymmetrical zipper and silver side pockets, it adds a little interest to even the most basic of bottoms. You’ve seen this Karin Millen dress before here. When in need, shop your closet, mamas.

How to Wear a Leather Jacket with a Dress

Frankly, I find cropped jackets the easiest to combine with both short and long dresses. If not cropped, I recommend a longer jacket with a belted waist like this one here.

Shot from the back. Marc and I had ventured out for a little couples time at the hotel restaurant next to our new apartment in Barcelona. Things have been stressful so we needed it bad!

There is no antidote to the trenches of parents — the tantrums, the fits, the exhaustion, the tediousness of discipline — like getting gussied up with your sweetie and hitting the town. In whatever way you can, fit it in. You need that time and you’ll be a better mama for it.

Sending you all my best!

Melissa xx