My apologies up front for the long post.

The post the other day on haircolor and bookending helped me identify the difficulty I have been expierencing lately in dressing for work and not feeling as "sharp" as I typically do. I haven't been feeling that "happiness factor" in my dressing lately. Its because my haircolor has changed!!

A little background:
I am a natural medium brown with fair/medium coloring and very blue eyes. I am also prematurely grey (first grey's showed up at age 19). Because my mother is a natural strawberry blonde - as a kid I always had natural red highlights from the sun. Therefore, in my mid 20's I began coloring my hair various shades of red over the past 20 years. I LOVE my red

Fast forward to recently, at the age of 49 I finally commited to a light copper color (last summer) because my hairdresser has told me I am 80% grey now and my hair grows so quickly I have to color every 3 weeks. The lighter color makes my "growth" appear less dramatic and I can get away with 4 weeks before having to color again.

However, I have always loved wearing dark colors (black, grey, navy, eggplant, olive and deeper jewel colors). I also wear tan, sand, light grey and LOVE white (clothes and shoes). Most of my shoes tend to be darker with a few light shades. I also love bronze and pewter shoes.

Afte reding the post on bookending I realize 80% of my shoes do not go with my haircolor. I am struggling when dresing now and am very sad as I don't feel I look as great in my fav color = Black, as I once did.

Finally to the question. Suggestions on how to transition with both shoes and clothing colors to feel more put together and a higher "happiness factor" with my lighter hair color.
Thanks ladies for reading this. Attached a a pic w/ my hair color for reference.