What to Wear: White Shoes

Sara, our favorite resident of Geneva and Garden Room lunch companion, wrote in with a request based around shoes:

I thought of an outfit question for you, I just ordered two pairs of white shoes. Aside from one dress, I don’t know what to wear them with. I’m trying to branch out from always wearing black and I thought these were both cute (and a good deal, the Bloomies ones were an additional half off, so only $32, although I had to call in to get the code to work. Maybe an outfit with a dark jeans skirt would work? I just ordered this one. I’m starting to doubt my venture into owning white shoes 🙂

White shoes are so versatile once you get used to them. They’re lovely with floral-type skirts and flouncy things…but even better with darker colors. Here are two outfits, one for summer and one for fall:

Summer
Shirt – Pretty and ruffled from Anthropologie. (who is apparently still killing all external links, drats)
Skirt – Excellent choice Sara! I love this dark denim pencil skirt from J Crew.
Messenger Bag – From Old Navy. Really, you don’t need to match your bag to the shoes. Any outfit-matching bag will do just fine.
Earrings – An extra splash of color.

Fall
Sweater – This J Crew cardigan has a bit of white detail to match the shoes.
Pants – They look odd in this photo, however, there’s nothing quite as nice as a good pair of wool trousers.
Purse – Again, matching isn’t necessary. I have an off-white bag myself and love that it goes with nearly everything.
Jacket – From Tulle with a great mod collar.
Earrings – Basic studs.

Enjoy your new shoes, Sara!