I can give you my thoughts on nude shoes with black, but you are the connoisseur of your own fashionista queen status. It’s kind of like that front-of-the-book feature in People magazine: Who wore it well? Two women, same outfit, doesn’t look the same, even when they’re both figure-fab move stars.
/Following up on our top-googling post, “12 picture answers to what color (or colour) shoes to wear with a black dress,” I give you the more specific answer to “Nude shoes with a black dress, yes or no?”
The answer, as always in fashion, is “it depends.” But more towards no. Read on.
You can wear nude colored shoes with a black dress. Heck, you can wear Crocs with your black dress. But how will it look? Is it the best option? Maybe not. what else have you got?
How Important is Where You’re Going?
Is it important enough to buy new shoes? If so, they’re probably not going to be nude. If not?
My question for you is again: Do you have a full length mirror for your bedroom?
Us everyday gals must be careful with our less-airbrushed figures. Especially those of us who are better than 50 …
That said, nude shoes with black dress is doable. Going back to my original post on shoe color, any color shoes with a black dress can work, but do you really want it to just work? Don’t you want to look smart, as we used to say, or “like a model?” That kind of look depends on going the extra fashion mile, and really thinking this through. Nude shoes will work, but them might not WORK. You want to make a statement, and there’s really not much of a good statement to make with nude shoes and a black dress, except, perhaps, “oh no, I don’t have black shoes or even red ones.”
With nude shoes, you’ll have no “break” between your leg and your feet. It will look like you’re barefoot. The severe nature of the color black will possibly make this seem a little incongruous, but as I’ve mentioned before, going just a little too far can be the height of fashion stardom. On the red carpet or the carpet of your workplace. Just like I said of the stars, you need to know your limits.
These glam legs and the strappy shoes and the rest of the image belong to Dream Pairs. All my criticisms aside, this above is a pretty successful combo. Note how the strappy shoes stand out a little more than they might, but still fit in with the short and simple black dress. Model has good legs, purse matches — it works.
It’s not always this easy.
JoLynn Shane gives you a good selection of shoes to wear with a black dress in her blogpost: the good, the servicable, and then there’s these. Okay I’m nitpicking here, but these nude shoes have lines that cross the same direction as the hem of the dress, and although the model has nice long legs, the shoes make them appear shorter, and the flat heels make her foot look squarish. This is the kind of thing you find where you have to see the picture. The dress is nice, elegant and simple (according to Tolstoy in Anna Karenina, there is nothing more elegant than a perfectly simple dress) But just imagine the same dress with red pumps or green espadrilles. Do you see what I mean?
Is this the last pair of shoes you’ve got? Have you been robbed of your better shoes by a teen aged daughter, an aspiring Imelda Marcos type? Or, maybe your only other pair is a pair of Crocs?
Image is from 24 outfits to wear with Crocs, on PureWow.
No baby no. The black dress is not for comfort. By the time you’re looking for comfort, you have to stash the black dress. Crocs cannot be part of it.
I guess it’s unfair, almost, to post the Crocs combo
But you see what I mean.
Nude shoes with a black dress are okay if they’re really spot on the right shoes, they’re meh if the shoes are just okay, and if they’re really the wrong shoes … you get the above. Don’t you have something else in your closet?
So there’s my answer to if you can wear nude shoes with a black dress. Yes, but are your sure you want to. What else have you got? Check your look in the mirror before you leave the house.
And crocs with a dress, no.
