https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/these-shoes-4 Style Advice for Fashion Lovers en-US Tue, 14 Apr 2026 20:36:26 +0000 http://bbpress.org/?v=1.0.2 q https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/search.php https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/these-shoes-4/page/2#post-2061900 Wed, 18 Sep 2019 10:54:16 +0000 Stagiaire Fash 2061900@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>I might have an “all the colors” issue too. I have blue, red, brown, metallic gold, black, white, purple and peach (gym shoes). Besides funky cool black flats, I want pink, green and bronze (sandals). Clearly, I am in no position to criticize your rainbow shoe collection. At least I had the forbearance to pass on these beauties—but I still love them!</p> <p>Ps. Those shoes are still on the site, along with some other amazingly colored shoes. It’s kinda sad/humorous though—there is a section of the site for flats, which is empty, as is the workwear section, except for the statement “look professional and stylish at the same time”. I am laughing, and not in a nice way. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/these-shoes-4/page/2#post-2061896 Wed, 18 Sep 2019 09:46:11 +0000 Jenni NZ 2061896@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Yes just read that old post- I remember it! So 19 pairs. I guess that my not liking the footbed was the toe marks inside them.<br /> I think I still have 43 pairs of shoes which I find embarrassing. Too many of mine are for similar purposes, I am trying hard to restrain myself. All my needs are met really with different kinds for across the seasons. My issue is wanting all the colours. Your old short black boots are cool, I like them </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/these-shoes-4/page/2#post-2061878 Wed, 18 Sep 2019 06:59:21 +0000 Stagiaire Fash 2061878@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Jenni, Good point about breaking as a message. I hope I can find something interesting at a good price. Fortunately, although there is a bit of a hole there where casual shoes (not boots) should go, it is by no means the case that I am barefoot until I find The Ones. I have red, blue, black, and floral gold boots, black and blue pumps, the brown Oxfords, 2 pr sandals, and gym shoes, plus the dead and dying black pairs in this conversation. I weeded out many pairs before moving, including worn out casual shoes and some that were never comfortable, and put the following in storage, which I would like to pick up &amp; wear: plum velvet Clark mocs, black combat boots, brown cowboy boots, tall chocolate brown boots, tan sling back sandals with a heel. I try to pick the shoes I’m buying here with those in mind, so that when I finally do get them, there won’t be redundancies.</p> <p>ETA going way back, in this pic, I see 4 more that I think are also still in storage—those black Clarks (but why?), short black boots (missed them last winter), white slides (I know you don’t like the way the footbed looks, Jenni, but I’m not bothered) and black slides I want to wear with a certain pair of pants. The blue ankle boots and black pumps are here, and were mentioned above <a href="https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/comfort-shoes-are-all-i-do" rel="nofollow">https://youlookfab.com/welookf.....e-all-i-do</a> </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/these-shoes-4/page/2#post-2061872 Wed, 18 Sep 2019 06:09:17 +0000 Jenni NZ 2061872@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>All depends how many shoes you have, FashIntern. I voted nay to your black ones which looked both too boring for your current style and too worn. By breaking they were telling you they were for the rubbish. You’re pretty good at finding well-priced items I believe? I think you should get some new more interesting shoes. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/these-shoes-4/page/2#post-2061853 Wed, 18 Sep 2019 03:44:54 +0000 cindysmith 2061853@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>I think they could be fun with a very twee style persona, or even a sort of "masculine" look </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/these-shoes-4/page/2#post-2061740 Tue, 17 Sep 2019 19:58:21 +0000 Stagiaire Fash 2061740@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>SarahD8, that is brilliant expository writing. Thank you. Your understanding of the original post/what I was trying to do was spot on. In that sense, "losing" these doesn't create a void in my wardrobe. </p> </p> <p>I think there is a hole I need to fill, but it is seasonal. I have sandals for summer and boots for winter, but only one pair of casual shoes for in-between. They are "nice", completely fine, bought because they look respectable. They work with some outfits, but honestly, if I get the kind of pale pink flats I've been lusting after, they'll get pushed aside, poor dears.</p> <p>Right now when I wear the things I've shown in this thread, I wear the patterned loafers. As great as they were initially, they really have run their race and need to be let out to pasture. Those items don't work with the cognac Borns, and I'm not ready to jump back into boots yet. Green sneaks might work with the striped skirt, but probably not with the b/w patterned pinny, and pink Oxfords/Brogues/Derby shoes wouldn't work with either. I have cool black pumps I could pull out, but that's really the wrong vibe. </p> <p>Black slip-ons with a little sumpin-sumptin it is!</p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/these-shoes-4/page/2#post-2061737 Tue, 17 Sep 2019 19:48:16 +0000 SarahD8 2061737@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Hmm...do you need (nice, safe) black shoes though?</p> <p>I read your original post as: "I have these shoes, help me figure out how to get some wear out of them."</p> <p>That suggests that you didn't have a strong need for nice, safe black shoes, because if you did you would have already been wearing the kaput shoes that way!</p> <p>I don't get the sense that there are outfits that you want/need to wear but no longer can because of the demise of these shoes. Probably some other pair of shoes has been filling the somewhat dressy, conservative-with-lurking-quirk role in your wardrobe. Maybe the patterned loafers that are wearing out? Replace <i>those</i> shoes, not the black ones!</p> <p>I think a lot of us have a tendency to think that we need something because it is "basic." I certainly am prone to that line of reasoning. But sometimes, our wardrobes work just fine without! </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/these-shoes-4/page/2#post-2061720 Tue, 17 Sep 2019 19:00:03 +0000 rachylou 2061720@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Hehe </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/these-shoes-4/page/2#post-2061716 Tue, 17 Sep 2019 18:51:19 +0000 Stagiaire Fash 2061716@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>I was wondering who the other "yes" vote was--should've guessed! </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/these-shoes-4#post-2061713 Tue, 17 Sep 2019 18:47:47 +0000 rachylou 2061713@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Ah well, that’s that then. I voted Yay, tho. I think I should say that I think they actually read a little young because of the mary jane strap. I’d have worn them with longer hemlines. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/these-shoes-4#post-2061711 Tue, 17 Sep 2019 18:43:39 +0000 Stagiaire Fash 2061711@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Thanks, Janet and Suntiger, for getting me out of my pout! </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/these-shoes-4#post-2061708 Tue, 17 Sep 2019 18:34:21 +0000 Stagiaire Fash 2061708@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>You remembered my fave phrase here--awesome! And you and I were posting nearly the same thing, as I went back for my ETA. I remember how much fun you had with the burgundy, and I enjoyed my floral and red boots, which is probably why I want more "fun". But there are a couple of not-boring black shoes in my woulda/coulda/shoulda finds; I need to look for more. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/these-shoes-4#post-2061705 Tue, 17 Sep 2019 18:29:01 +0000 Anonymous 2061705@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Yes, they don't have to be boooring! It could be a texture, or different heel shape, etc to give them that "lurking quirk". And there's a place for the not black, more statementy shoes too. Last year, for example, the boots I wore the most were burgundy, not black. They made all my outfits that much more interesting. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/these-shoes-4#post-2061703 Tue, 17 Sep 2019 18:26:43 +0000 Stagiaire Fash 2061703@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p> <div>Or I just need more shoes, lol. I got compliments on those loafers like nothing else I've ever worn, so I know you're right about black shoes not always being boring, but right now, when I look at black shoes, or at rain coats, which I also need, I am *not* feeling it at all. <br /></div><div><br /></div><div>I think I have plantar's fasciitis right now. Idk if that means health insurance will cover orthotics for me, but I'm kinda thinking of holding off on new shoe purchases until I find out. <br /></div><div><br /></div><div>ETA, maybe it's the "nice safe" part of "nice, safe black shoes" I need to back off on. They don't look that fancy, but the loafers were the first patterned shoes I've had in quite a while, and the little strip of reflective metal along the inside of the heels was flashy for me. So the remit is black slip-ons with a little sumpin-sumptin. <br /></div></p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/these-shoes-4#post-2061700 Tue, 17 Sep 2019 18:20:09 +0000 Janet 2061700@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>You made some good cohesive outfits with the "boring" black shoes, and it seems that some shoes with that function would be useful to you in a way that bright green or pink shoes would not.&nbsp;Shoes don't have to be boring because they're black! &nbsp; </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/these-shoes-4#post-2061699 Tue, 17 Sep 2019 18:15:48 +0000 Stagiaire Fash 2061699@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>And just what would the right shoes be? That’s a rhetorical question, out of frustration. My lovely loafers have been quietly dying since last fall, when I first noticed socks were good with them. Now it’s the only way I can wear them. I still like the idea of bright green Vans Old Skools and pink lace-ups. As much as I loved the loafers and as serviceable as these once were, getting a nice safe pair of black shoes sounds like a bo-o-o-o-ring way to spend money. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/these-shoes-4#post-2061692 Tue, 17 Sep 2019 18:03:05 +0000 SarahD8 2061692@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>I agree with Janet! I like the outfits you created but it sounds like you weren’t super wowed by them. Time to let go and make space for the exactly right shoes. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/these-shoes-4#post-2061687 Tue, 17 Sep 2019 17:58:16 +0000 Janet 2061687@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>I think they served their purpose. When shoes do this, they're really giving up the ghost. I wouldn't hang onto them -- time to find a new replacement!&nbsp; </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/these-shoes-4#post-2061683 Tue, 17 Sep 2019 17:51:40 +0000 Anonymous 2061683@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>They worked in the outfits though! </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/these-shoes-4#post-2061612 Tue, 17 Sep 2019 15:58:43 +0000 Stagiaire Fash 2061612@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>And that ends this chapter. I’ve tried a couple outfits, wasn’t sure either had enough quirky twist to pull the shoes off, wore one for a little bit anyway today (in the drizzle, with the puffy), and then this happened. </p> <p>I’m sticking them in the cellar, to be repaired if I ever decide I really need them. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/these-shoes-4#post-2061419 Mon, 16 Sep 2019 19:25:35 +0000 Stagiaire Fash 2061419@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Bijou, no one is going to call anyone wearing those a little old lady, for sure-getting kicked with those toes would hurt! ;)</p> <p>Sal, wow, super similar! Except the heel on yours makes me think they could’ve been modern dance shoes. Thanks for the tip about the shoes tipping overly prim &amp; proper. If I wear them that way, I’ll have to be very intentional about it (and am scheming up an outfit already—with a skirt that’s in Florida). </p> <p>Suntiger, I’ve owned them for a decade. Price tag still in them is from place we lived when my son was 6; he’s 16 now. They have more wear on them than I expected, probably because I walked a few miles a day there. I have always wanted to like them, think the styling was probably the problem, so am soaking up all these tips. </p> <p>Angie, I will try that outfit in the morning. </p> <p>Hereforthecake, yep, it’s a fine line to tread—and I think it’s moved since I got them ten years ago! I am putting on my thinking cap about funky pieces other than the vest Angie mentioned. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/these-shoes-4#post-2061301 Mon, 16 Sep 2019 04:46:47 +0000 Bijou 2061301@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>It’s all in the styling! I am wearing some t-bar heels, similar to the picture in finds, with a leopard print dress today. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/these-shoes-4#post-2061273 Mon, 16 Sep 2019 01:40:25 +0000 Sal 2061273@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>I just discarded my similar but different pair.&nbsp; They had been reheeled x 2 and had lost their shape.&nbsp;&nbsp;</p> <p>Mary Janes are comfortable and I like them.&nbsp; Do you like them which is the most important thing?</p> <p>I liked mine best with cropped pants and either a sheer sock or similar.&nbsp; I liked them less with dresses as they felt a bit like a school look which I didn't want. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/these-shoes-4#post-2061261 Mon, 16 Sep 2019 01:16:24 +0000 Anonymous 2061261@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>I'd agree with seeing what stylings you come up with, but paused when you said you weren't in love with the shape. Do you own them or are just considering? </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/these-shoes-4#post-2061253 Mon, 16 Sep 2019 01:04:53 +0000 hereforthecake 2061253@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>I think they could teeter either way, between frumpy or funky. </p> <p>To my mind, they need to be styled with black tights and a funky outfit, or they will read as frumpy. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/these-shoes-4#post-2061192 Sun, 15 Sep 2019 22:45:19 +0000 Angie 2061192@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p><b>FashIntern</b>, how about with skinnies and a black top? I think your arty cobalt vest could go over the lot since it has black in it. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/these-shoes-4#post-2061174 Sun, 15 Sep 2019 19:47:32 +0000 Stagiaire Fash 2061174@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Shevia, I agree! It’s getting much more I retesting now, with someone else voting “yes” after Angie came out and said she did. All the different styling suggestions are great too! </p> <p>Carla, I’d love to do a “Lolita”/school girl” look, but don’t think these shoes work for it. I like your ideas of pairing them with something RATE. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/these-shoes-4#post-2060914 Sun, 15 Sep 2019 02:34:52 +0000 Jaime 2060914@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Interesting discussion - it is so hard to judge things like this in the abstract. I have to see the whole outfit to judge.&nbsp; </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/these-shoes-4#post-2060909 Sun, 15 Sep 2019 02:08:59 +0000 Carla 2060909@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Juxtapose the primness of the style with a cropped wide leg jean with a raw hem, or a skinny black ankle baring trouser. Avoid going the Lolita route with ankle socks or knee highs. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/these-shoes-4#post-2060843 Sat, 14 Sep 2019 19:28:34 +0000 Stagiaire Fash 2060843@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>TG, that’s an important distinction. Thanks for pointing it out. </p> <p>Angie, do you have any styling suggestions? </p> <p>Joy, wearing them with pants like that makes sense. I’ll have to see what I have with wide legs and ppl. </p> <p>L’abielle, you’ve put more thought into outfits for them than I have. Thank you! I definitely have a dorky professor look, which is pretty darn close to librarian. </p> <p>Karen, painting is an interesting idea, but I’m not sure I’m in love with the shape enough to do it. </p>