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[ursula]

Purple skirt
Originally uploaded by ursulageorges

I now own a purple silk skirt to wear at nobu's wedding. It looks like this, or, if you prefer seeing my face to seeing the colour of the skirt, like this.

It occurs to me that I probably need shoes. My remotely nice shoes are a heavily beaded pair of brown flats, and Dansko sandals of a reddish brown colour. Does looking remotely dressed up require that I not wear brown shoes with a black shirt? And does this skirt require shoes that are not flat?

Comments

[ursula]

The wedding's in September. I should point out here that my feet are little but wide, so any shoe I buy is going to have either a cute & chunky look or be sufficiently inexpensive that I don't mind the wrong fit.

[dymaxion.livejournal.com]

Hrm. Yeah, I'd say boots; I think something like that could work. Here are a couple of suggestions: http://www.zappos.com/n/p/dp/19730437/c/3.html and http://www.zappos.com/n/p/dp/19029504/c/216.html; I think I like the latter better.

[ursula]

But the latter is brown! ;)

[dymaxion.livejournal.com]

Yeah, but it's a cold enough brown to pass, I think, and the grey-purple suede bits would blend nicely with the skirt. Also, I think they'd be more useful for wearing other times, modulo having a bit of a heel, than the first pair.

[ursula]

Funny-- my instinct is that red-purple goes with red-brown rather than gray-blue.

[dymaxion.livejournal.com]

Hrm. Even with the better-colored of the two photos, it's hard to get a real read on the color of the skirt. If it's a red purple, you're definitely right.

[ursula]

It's not super red, but it's on the red side of the Crayola line. On my monitor the top of the skirt in the flash picture is about right. Of course, the whole point of silk is that there's an interesting variance of shades . . .

[dymaxion.livejournal.com]

Hrm; it may just be different monitors or something, then.

[otherwind.livejournal.com]

yeah, I agree...I also agree about the flats thing with that length of skirt. I suspect September will still be pretty hot for boots.