with Susan Wagner
The Working Closet is your source for the best of what's hip and fresh in fashion and beauty. Susan Wagner keeps you up-to-date on trends and offers tips and tricks for making everything in your closet truly work for you.
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Because it is Thanksgiving, and I am thankful for ALL of you, with your witty comments and your lovely work clothes and your terrific shoes, I want to share this with you: Steve Madden has a Design Your Own Collection option.
You heard me: DESIGN YOUR OWN SHOES. You’re welcome!
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My e-mail box is OVERFLOWING with terrific questions about work wear and casual wear and wedding wear, and I’m FINALLY tackling them. Today: metallic shoes for work.
I buy one really nice item for myself every now and then. These days I’ve been ogling J.Crew’s distressed leather metallic Mary Janes in silver. I’m an attorney and go to court all the time, so I wear a lot of black and gray suits. Very boring. Do you think the silver shoes are just too daring to be professional? Or, could I pull them off??? I’m 36 with 2 kids so I really have no business in heels or in spending $250 for a pair of shoes, but my vanity is still there and I just got a small bonus.
Erica
Val works in a library, and she’s looking to upgrade her work wardrobe, from the bottom up (if you will):
I mostly wear jeans to work. I also wear athletic shoes, because I’m on my feet a lot and occasionally deal with flare ups of Plantar Fasciitis.
Our university just merged with the medical university in our town and they have a much more “corporate” setting. My colleagues and I feel it’s only a matter of time before they implement a dress code. I’ve picked up a few things that I like; things I could probably wear to work without a problem - if I could figure out what to put on my feet! So, I’ve begun looking into shoes that I can wear with clothing
other than jeans. And that leads me to my question, which is a two-parter:Given that I live in Ohio and winter will be here soon, what the heck should I be looking for to wear with dress pants? And what should I be wearing on my feet underneath those shoes, that won’t look completely stupid but will still prevent me from freezing off my toes?
Today we have two questions about shoes, and an announcement about the contest. Let’s start with the shoes, shall we?
I have a question for you. What to wear with the cute mary janes in the shoe stores for fall. I’m lusting over some brown suede ones but I don’t have a clue as to what to wear with them. I work in a very casual office so I’m in mostly jeans and kahakis. I’m thinking they would work with both of them but would I wear hoses with them? (please say no!!) socks? or just go bare? I’m in the south so that would work for a while but eventually even in South Carolina we do have winter.
Thanks for any help you can give me!
Shelly
