This week’s fab finds are very specific, and you can wear them together if you fancy the idea. Wearing casual boots with dressy tights creates juxtaposition, or outfit tension. Juxtaposition has become a key styling strategy of our current fashion era. That, and relaxation of dress codes.
1. ECCO Olso Wingtip Boots
This has been a comfortable and easy to-pull-on-and-off casual boot for everyday wear for clients who have smaller bunions and/or wider feet. The boots come with two footbeds. The thinner one for wider feet, and the fatter one for narrower feet. You can remove the footbeds entirely and put in your own orthotics too. The brogue detailing is particularly on trend. The black soles on the ruby pair make the colour familiar to wear when you’re used to wearing black footwear but feel like a variation. Equally great bookending with black hair, and works well with a black belt. Their high shafts make them great to style with cropped pants. Their streamlined silhouette makes them easy to style with skirts, dresses, and shorts too.
2. Patterned Hosiery
Patterned hosiery can be festive, texture-rich, and insulating to add to skirt, dress and shorts outfits in colder weather. These days, black is not your only option. There are berry tones, all sorts of browns, navy, and Winter whites too. Match the colour of hosiery to shoes, and feel free to mismatch them. Some styles have reinforced toes, making them a more robust option to wear with sneakers and boots. I usually wear nude-for-me hosiery with my dresses and skirts in the colder months, although I fancy a patterned cream pair and might try those to change things up.
