Ooh, that might work! I may have to try it tonight. I just have visions of it getting tangled around me and my dance partner whilst in a complex combo. :eek:
I have a thing about matching shoes and outfits.
I don’t like mixing black and brown.
I don’t like wearing navy and black together (tan, chocolate, white or grey would be my preference).
I own cute coloured shoes-green, pink, red, gold, silver, blue, grey and wear them with my work clothes, which generally tend to be navy, black, grey or brown.
I own a LOT of shoes.
I don’t have a par of red heels though…maybe I should look into that…
I’ve decided I need acid green heels. I like that better than red.
I just now realized that I don’t own an LBD. :eek:
I haven’t thought about it in a while. But it’s true!
I do own, however, several LHPNs. Thanks partly to my mother.
LHPN: Little House on the Prairie Nightgowns. She thought my satin nighties were too racy and inappropriate.
So, shoes for a woman’s outfit are like a tie for a man? They don’t need to match anything else, and are a good way to add a splash of bright color?
Yeah, but ties don’t make a man’s gams look great.
Yeah, they don’t pop your T & A out like a nice pair of stiletto heels do. 
Men: Do you need me to explain why heels pop out our T&A? High heels pitch your weight forward, which throws off your center of gravity. You have to arch your back a bit to compensate for this shift. Thus, T & A get popped out as soon as we slip those heels on. Only maybe 2-3 other articles of female clothing make you feel as or more sexy.
Because we wear more different styles of dressy clothes than men do.
I’m a woman who does not like shoe shopping, because my feet are difficult to fit and not many shoes are becoming to them. Shoe shopping is just a pain in the neck to me; maybe other women think that it’s fun and joyful but I hate it.
However, I still own probably about 15-20 pairs of shoes, because I can’t get away with having just one type of dress shoes, like you can. When you get dressed up, you wear a suit, with dark socks and your one pair of dress shoes, and that’s it.
But when I get dressed up, the dress shoes that go with one outfit look terrible with another. The suede heels or boots that harmonize nicely with a wool skirt suit in wintertime are just completely inappropriate with a floaty cotton skirt or dress in summertime, which needs a lighter pair of flats or sandals. And the tailored slacks for work require yet another shoe style, and the go-for-broke evening gown requires still another, and so on and so forth.
If you saw your SO wearing the same pair of shoes with every one of her outfits, you’d think she looked rather weird and dowdy. You might not even realize why, but the fact is that women’s styles are just so much more varied than men’s that we need more shoe styles to go with them.
And that’s coming to you from a female shoe-hater who would like nothing better than to never have to go shoe shopping again.
Thanks for enlightening me, ladies. I now understand the situation much better.
I’m a dude, but I have a pair of bright blue shoes that I sometimes wear with an all-black onsom. I’m thinking of buying a pair of metallic-gold Doc Martens for similar applications.
What is “an all-black onsom” ?
Ensemble, I think. >.>
I have red gingham flats (mary jane style) but I think you guys have convinced me that I need red heels too. I’m wondering if they may just be almost as versatile as my brown suede wedges.
I don’t wear a lot of black though. brown, yes, but black makes me look like an ad for the next zombie movie.
I’m a shoe utilitarian and only own black shoes (except for athletic shoes) but I still own maybe five times as many pairs of shoes as my husband. (Ten or fifteen pairs, depending on how you count things that probably ought to be thrown out.) Daytime work shoes (dressy) are not the same as evening dressy shoes. Sandals are almost expected in summer, and they come in dress and casual versions. Although I do stick to black shoes, red shoes as an accent color make sense to me. I’d not wear red with red because of the match problem. Red with gray or black works well.
I actually envy the acceptability for a woman to have that little splash of color. Sure, a guy can pull it off, but it seems a lot harder.
I wish there were more different types of shoes that actually mattered for men–well except for the fact that it saves me money on shoeshopping.
Also, you really need at least four pair, as letting shoes set for a few days makes them last longer. I remember a study saying four pairs bought at the same time and rotated will last longer than bought only as they wear out.
Plus, women notice the shoes, guys. A good shoe has always gotten me a compliment.
Oh I used to be disgusted,
and now I try to be amused. 
I have a pair of zebra-print pony skin stiletto platform mules. That’s 3 different animals in one shoe!
You say that like two pairs is a reasonable number to have. It’s not. Do you wear sneakers for everything other than dressy occasions? Yikes.
There are no rules about red shoes.
There are only rules about white shoes. (Memorial Day thru Labor Day only, unless you are the bride, or they are tennis shoes. Then, any time.)
You mean, then, none of the time, surely.
Ugh tennis shoes.