trousers for work: what shoes with them?

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Help! I'm hoping to start some work in a College of FE soon. I've been self-employed for aaages and clueless about what to wear. I don't "do" dresses/skirts but used to wear trouser suits a lot back in the day.

I quite like cigarette-type trousers but I'm dumpy, wide and small (3) of foot and with no idea of what shoes to wear with them. Cig pants seem to be worn mostly with high courts, which I struggle with.

Any alternatives, O wise ones? I'm 55, btw, size 12 with no waist, and carrying a few too many pounds.