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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?

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[dymaxion.livejournal.com]

You definitely don't want brown with that, I think, at least not a mediumish brown; a cooler color that plays off of the skirt is a much better idea; black would be a good default, and it's certainly the safe choice. You don't have to wear heels with it, but it's a somewhat hard length; I think anything other than sandles or (slim, at least mid-calf) boots might be a mistake, but that'd depend a little bit on the details. Basically, with the height that the hemline is at, you don't want anything to visually split up that space further, so you need something that either doesn't read as taking up any of it (sandles, preferably something relatively non-bulky), or something that smoothly takes up all of it (boots). With boots, heels might work, although you can definitely do it without them. If the wedding isn't for a little while yet I'd go with boots; I think that's the better of the two looks; OTOH, they'd be a bit odd at a summer wedding.

[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.