Black dress, red tights, what shoes?

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Wardrobe overhaul continued... (yet still clueless)

For work I'm buying tan and black striped

and this black dress.

I'm planning on wearing red tights with the black dress, but what colour shoes for work then? Also, with coloured tights, will a black trench type coat work with black ballet pumps for the commute, or clown outfit? Other option is beige mac, but still unsure about the walking to work shoes.

For what it's worth, I have nice (enough) tan and also black heels, so thought I might wear those if (haha) it's not cold anymore. Aircon in my office on -365 too, which doesn't exactly help. I'm just fed up of black or grey suits, which is what I tend to wear all the time.

I would not recommend red tights. Unless you are size 6-8 your legs will look like frankfurters. Or you will look "zany" like Mary Portas. Lace tights maybe if you are after a bit of interest?

Oh god no- NOT red tights!

Flesh coloured or black or dark grey if you must.
Red with look extremely trashy.

I wear lots of coloured tights and probably the best bit of my body is my legs but red tights are incredibly unfalttering.

Could you not go for maybe blue - electric blue looks good.

Looking like Mary Portas is no bad thing in my book

I would go 60s style and wear red shoes with the red tights.

Or tan shoes and thin tan belt on the black dress.

Beige mac better than black.

red tights are a BAAD idea

nice dresses

I agree blue or teal tights with the black dress, or, black or flesh with the stripey, nude or nude fishnets with either

beige mac sounds fine to me

I'd LOVE to look like Mary Portas, fashion wise.
I think she would say NO to red tights

No i'm afraid mary does like <a class="break-all" href="http://www.google.co.uk/imgres?imgurl=beautyandthecloset.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/mary-portas-orange-tights.jpg&imgrefurl=beautyandthecloset.co.uk/%3Fp%3D99&usg=__X2GMd0_2OOjUlkj3S92tHfT0z7E=&h=460&w=661&sz=56&hl=en&start=0&zoom=1&tbnid=JaBVZVU-QBdk7M:&tbnh=139&tbnw=189&ei=YQaGTZG-I8iyhAfzn6C-BA&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dmary%2Bportas%2Btights%26hl%3Den%26client%3Dsafari%26rls%3Den%26biw%3D1119%26bih%3D557%26tbs%3Disch:1&itbs=1&iact=hc&vpx=134&vpy=83&dur=2338&hovh=187&hovw=269&tx=148&ty=112&oei=YQaGTZG-I8iyhAfzn6C-BA&page=1&ndsp=19&ved=1t:429,r:0,s:0" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">hot dog legs

Blue tights vile- red much better.

Blue and red tights are both vile. Opaques work in black, grey, navy, plum, and if you are slim and going for a retro vibe ivory. That is all imho

Oh and brown is allowed too.

I agree, definitely no to red tights.

Hahaha, ok, I think I should skip red tights then. I kind of like the look of bright tights, but no-one has ever accused me of having size 6 - 8 legs. Sadly. Ivory out then too.

Well, I have black, so could do that for thick tights. So nude fishnets ok then if I feel like something different?

Oh, and beige mac it'll be then.

FauxFox, the brown you mentioned... Also for the skinnier of leg?

I'm a 12 and I wear chocolate brown opaques...I think they work

You forgot yellow FF

I also wore red opaques once a few years back when I was a size 10...twas for the playschool xmas party and the 3 year olds thought they were fab

I can't wear yellow anything without looking close to death...

FF.

I'm size 14, not big boned or anything like that, just flabby. Brown opaques with black dress? Shoes?

I once bought bright orange tights. Heaven knows why, I never wore them. Seemed like a good idea in the shop.

I can't be of much help really. I've had disastrous experiences with coloured / patterned tights.
Would advise caution.

Unless you are very tall it might look odd.

Maybe high heeled shoe boots - in black suede..?

I'm always a bit uncertain re shoe boots with shortish legs (I'm 1.67 ish) and heavy hips - worry that it might cut it shorter. Will have a look though.

In my search of shoe boot looks, I found these FC ugly ones. There should be a rule against wearing them unless you're 20. And a model. Possibly even then. Should anyone here own them though, I'm backtracking. As you can see above, I know nothing.

Btw, whilst not sure about shoe boots on me, I did like these Nine West ones.

Shoe boots and heavy ankle strap shoes are sent only to make legs look like bollards imo. Don't look good on anyone, even sticky thin celebs.

Yes, I don't think it does me any favours. I have seen some looking nice on very trendy, skinny people, but not something I've felt comfortable with. I actually once got given some at work (design related company at the time), but I could never find anything in my wardrobe that it ever went with. Might have been me, but I liked blaming the shoes instead.