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Fashion Q & A
Fall wardrobe top-up time is upon us and I'm trying to bump my office look up a little from hot tech girl to srs bsns woman with a hint of scary librarian thrown in. (I save sexy librarian for my evening look.) So my questions are:
Do black shoes go with brown pants? How about grey pants? And why is corduroy back?
I'm so putting ranks into Knowledge: Fashion next time I level.
Do black shoes go with brown pants? How about grey pants? And why is corduroy back?
I'm so putting ranks into Knowledge: Fashion next time I level.
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And corduroy is back as punishment for something we did. I don't know what that something was, but it must have been bad.
signed, The Fashion Police
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The corduroy thing I can't explain and don't want to; I'm just glad that I'm probably not even allowed to wear it.
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Do black shoes go with brown pants?
In most cases, you have to with brown shoes, unless it's an especially dark shade of brown.
How about grey pants?
Yep, black shoes with grey pants.
And why is corduroy back?
'Cause it's always comes back in the fall. It's just like tights, animal prints, short plaid skirts, and brown.
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My own rule for brown and navy blue with black is that the brown or navy blue need to be light enough that they are clearly brown or blue. Otherwise you may look like you *thought* the articles in question were black, and that's never good. I offer you this guideline.
And yes,
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Black + brown = officially not done, but you can get away with it depending on what color the brown is. The closer it is to tan or khaki, the better it looks with black shoes. Socks/hose matter, too -- picking a heathered pattern with both black and brown in it can help.
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no idea on the cuorduroy
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• black shoes can go with brown pants, provided that the brown is not a dark shade. so. tan, khaki - those are cool. but like. black shoes don't actually go with everything. it technically can, but dark shade + dark shade is usually not the most visually appealing combination. black shoes + light/medium shade is A+ though.
• thus, black shoes always go with grey pants! actually, monotone colors can, almost always, be mix-n-matched together. colors, though, aren't always the case (ie valentine's day. whoever thought red + pink was a good combination should be shot).
• and i don't know about this corduroy thing but.... i say no matter what you see, stay away from corduroy. i'm thinking and cannot for the life of me think of a single example in which corduroy would be acceptable in the workplace. or society in general. :|
sldkjf Sorry I am rambly (and randomly forgone proper capitalization) but this is like. Nearly a decade's worth of having a best friend who loves fashion and reads Vogue all the time, and is also an art student, so really good with colors. I JUST REALLY LIKE IT WHEN THIS KNOWLEDGE COMES IN HANDY. :D
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I was going to comment on this entry saying I love corduroy. :|
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God, you would. Ugh.
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I'm wearing my favorite corduroy pants today okay. The brown ones with the buttons down the side. I LOVE THEM.
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Grey pants are good though. I like grey pants a lot more than brown anyway.
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♥
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No, honest!
*g*
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Which reminds me, the elbows are wearing out on my corduroy blazer; I should go buy some nice heavy tweed and patch them.
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