What color shoes/bag with navy/dark lavender/cream outfits?

The weather is still in the forties and awful here in Boston, so wearing more springy colors is the only way here for me to introduce 'spring' to my wardrobe ( still winter fabrics tough). I find myself gravitating a lot towards this color combo, and I have plenty of pieces in it ( tops and coats and scarves in navy and lavender and cream, bottoms in navy, dark denim and cream). Sometimes i add shades of grey into the mix. For example, today I'm wearing navy wide-leg thin corduroy trousers, navy knit top under cream wrap sweater, dark lavender wool coat and cream scarf. Silvertone accessories( watch and thin necklace).

However, I'm totally at lost at shoes/bag colors to wear with. Right now I'm wearing black because I could not think of anything else, but I don't think it goes quite right with. Here're my current options other than black:
shoes - chocolate brown leather, dark tan( peanut) leather, mid-grey suede. navy suede wedges ( but with cork bottoms, not sure if they are wearable now) and dark lavender wedges that match the coat ( not sure if wearing them together is too matchy-matchy). Bags- less options here: brown, dark tan, light pinky-beige nude. Hmm, please feel free to also suggest colors that I do not currently own. Thanks a lot!

16 years ago

Angie

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Ditto in Seattle. Cream shoes! Cream, cream, cream!

shiny

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Hmm, I think I'd have to see what you mean by "dark" lavendar. Lavendar to me is a very light shade of purple, and by definition can't be "dark." Is it actually purple or mauve or wine? If so, try wine leather shoes and bags. Wine looks great with light lavendar too, and even works with grey wool.

Otherwise, what I think looks very current right now with cream and navy is mustard yellow pointy-toed heels. Or orange. I don't own any myself, but I have my eye on a pair of orange patent leather heels that I may splurge on. Until then, I normally just go with black shoes with my dark denim jeans and navy slacks. I find navy shoes are just too hard to match.

For bag, I think that you could do wine, or dark brown, or tan or black or winter white/cream. Or if you want to splurge on something new and trendy, a pop of color in mustard or orange or a blue - not navy though. Something more like this shade:

http://www.retrodelic.com/ellie_eday_sblue.html

Hmmm, actually what also might look fab is something like this:

http://www.zappos.com/n/p/dp/37876461/c/2127.html

Two tone!

Julia

Active Member

One combination I learned to put colors together is to select two opposite colors on the color wheel then pick a color next to one of them to complete the look.

The dark lavender and navy blue are next to each other on the color wheel, the cream is a neutral color, so you can pick an opposite color of either lavender or navy blue depends on which one is dominant. I personally like to complete it with a dark brown bag. I've seen it somewhere and it's a very smart and sophisticated look. However if you want it to be more "springish", depends on the shade of the lavender, dark green or mustard yellow might be the way to go. I hope this makes sense.

Tanya

Thank you all for the replies, this helps a lot!
The dark lavender shade ( and this could not be it's right name) is very similar to this dress ( this is the color of my coat and wedge shoes)
http://www2.victoriassecret.co.....rfnbr=2667.
It's cold 'azalea' there. I also have a few tops in a more traditional lighter lavender shade :
http://www2.victoriassecret.co.....rfnbr=2220.

Shiny, I love those navy/cream shoes you've posted! Unfortunately, I am grad student that spends whole days in lab on my feet, so my daily shoes are either flats with a lot of cushioning or wedges of various heights ( up to 3" I can wear without a problem). I actually own a pair of very dark wine patent ballerina flats, so those would work for pants that are hemmed for flats. But I'll still need a pair of wedges for pants that need heels!

I know that yellow will work for navy/cream, but you guys are saying that it would still work even if I trough the lavender in ?

So, to sum up all of your advice, either a brown bag with yellow/cream/ cream-navy / wine shoes or maybe a cream bag with bright shoes (yellow, dark green) ?

I guess now that am looking looking for a closed toe ( must be unfortunately) 2.5-3" wedge shoes in yellow or cream-navy or pure cream. I'll look around Zappos etc. and see what I can find.

I see those colours as purple, Tanya. Lavender is mauve. A pastel purple. Does that make sense?

Yes, yellow would work even if you brought the "lavender" back in. I’d stay away from brown. It’s Spring. Brown works best with white and yellow for Spring. You have to keep brown flesh and crisp when you wear it in warmer months. Have fun shoe shopping!

I wouldn't throw both brown and yellow/green in the combination, it would be too much. Since you have cream in the look already, I'd go with brown bag/cream shoes or cream bag with yellow/green shoes. Also the shade of the yellow/green is important, it's better to be in the same shade as the lavender you're wearing.

Thanks Angie, for the color explanation, I guess I was just calling it lavender when it really wasn't! Sometimes it's difficult to know this exactly.

So cream bag and yellow shoes it is then. That's good since I could use those in my wardrobe anyway for spring/summer for many other oufits.

If anyone sees a nice cool(undertone) yellow patent closed toe wedge let me know!

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