Brogues......should I?

[BodenGroupie]

I love them but am v. old so can't wear them like DD - leggings and floaty jacket.

How else can I wear them - I'm 5'9, size 12. I do like the Katherine Hepburn, wide-legged trouser thing but don't want to look butch or frumpy (strangely enough!)

[ninah]

KH fine
skirt of the right ilk with tanned legs and a tight top

[TheRealMrsJohnSimm]

If you are working a KH vibe, fabulous. HOWEVER, if you are working an Agy Deyn look.......just step away!!

[BodenGroupie]

Did the Agy Deyn look, complete with the hair, in the 1980s - don't think I'll be doing it again . Will also be avoiding the style of my first teacher who wore them with ankle socks and a tweed skirt!

KH it is, thanks both of you.

[MrsSeanBean]

Knee length tweed skirt, thick tights, polo jumper and Russell and Bromley tassle brogues (now hideously over priced since Alexa Chung took to wearing) - a good (if potentially frumpy without correct 'look) autumn outfit IMHO.

[MrsSeanBean]

PS Will bow to other MNers superior knowledge regarding how NOT to look frumpy.

[plantwoman]

cropped trousers (those 7/8th ones - not too short) - or trousers rolled up a bit I think.

[ninah]

ah frumpy's the new fly

[MrsSeanBean]

If frumpy tweed is hot I may yet be 'fashionable'

[BodenGroupie]

I'm so frumpy I don't know what fly means