Black Dress: Which Shoe Colors Work?
I own fourteen black dresses. I counted them properly last week, laid them across the bed like some sort of very somber card trick, and the number should have alarmed…
Little Black Dress Shoes: Color Ideas Beyond Black
I was on the floor of my closet at eleven at night, cross legged, surrounded by shoes I’d pulled out of a bin I hadn’t opened since March, because I…
Royal Blue Dress Shoe Colors
I have worn the same royal blue wrap dress to eleven separate events since March, which sounds like an admission of financial ruin but is actually just what happens when…
Dresses Beyond Heels: Sneakers, Boots, Blazers, Cardigans and Sandals
There was a wedding in September, three years ago now, and I wore a pale green midi dress with a pair of strappy gold heels I had bought two days…
Maroon Dress and Shoe Colors
I was standing in the front hall with one shoe on, running eleven minutes behind for a dinner I did not even really want to go to, and I had…
What Color Shoes Go With a Pink Dress?
My friend Colette walked into my kitchen last spring, took one look at me in a blush pink midi dress and black pointed flats, and stopped dead. “You’re really doing…
Best Shoe Colors for a Purple Dress
I once wore fuchsia colored heels with a plum colored dress to my cousin’s engagement party and spent the entire evening looking like I’d lost a bet. In my head,…
White Dress: Shoes and Tights That Work
I wore a white dress to my cousin’s engagement party three years ago and paired it with sheer black tights I’d had folded in a drawer since a funeral the…
Navy Blue Dress Shoe Colors
My sister took one look at my feet and said, “Absolutely not,” before I’d even said hello. This was two years ago, standing in her kitchen in a navy dress…
Heel Colors for a Purple Dress
My mom walked into my kitchen on a Tuesday night, looked at me standing on a step stool trying to get a wine bottle off the top shelf, and said,…