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What colour shoes do you wear with grey trousers?

18 replies

sweetheart · 24/10/2012 15:40

I have a couple of grey work trousers and I'm never sure what to wear with them. I'm not keen on black shoes, I own 2 emergency pairs and although i know black and grey probably go really well together i hardly ever wear black tops. Brown shoes just seem wrong with grey to me - are they?

Tops I would wear with them would probably be either cream, blush pink, another shade of grey or possibly navy blue.

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polyhymnia · 24/10/2012 15:46

Black would certainly work. As would a nice berry shade.

HappyHalloweenMotherFucker · 24/10/2012 15:48

navy and grey is good

foxyhen · 24/10/2012 15:52

Navy blue flats with a blue top? Or a black top and completely different colour shoes - perhaps a red flat? I find grey trousers very difficult too.

oliviafrombolivia · 24/10/2012 15:55

Have seen grey trousers/grey wooly tights styled with tan, I think it is a surprisingly nice combination.

Steth · 24/10/2012 15:58

Why don't you just bin the grey trousers if they are giving you so much grief trying to match shoes /tops

vintageviolets · 24/10/2012 16:02

Red?

sweetheart · 24/10/2012 16:14

I find it quite difficult to find work trousers, I don't really wear black and as a pear shape I need to wear darker colours on the bottom. I tend to favour Navy blue as my black.

I guess shoes I'm probably ok with it's more in the winter I struggle when I'm in boots as I only own brown boots really - although I do have a black ememrgency pair that hardly ever get worn.

Berry is my fav colour this winter, perhaps I'll have to see if I can get berry boots - or would they be disgusting?

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Celticlassie · 24/10/2012 16:47

I wore dark green today, if that helps.

DolomitesDonkey · 24/10/2012 16:54

Last time I wore grey trousers I wore them with a deep red patent heel.

MissBoPeep · 24/10/2012 17:14

Brown is actually THE colour to wear with grey. men who wear grey suits should always wear brown shoes not black.

Trinny and Susannah wrote about the grey- brown combo in one of their style bibles :)

TooMuchRain · 24/10/2012 19:59

Red at the moment (but wore a grey winter coat with brown shoes today and though that combination was ok too)

PandaG · 24/10/2012 20:02

pink.

HerBigChance · 24/10/2012 20:03

Dark red.

Sleepthief · 24/10/2012 21:15

Tomorrow I will be wearing my bright red supergas with my dark grey chinos (I have just decided because of this thread). But tan could work, or a different shade of grey. TBH I'd say black was the bottom of a long list of possible.

GoodnightNobody · 24/10/2012 21:20

Red

Or cream pumps.

hugoagogo · 24/10/2012 21:36

Grey is easy black, brown, navy, purple, green, teal, red are all good.
Nearly all my work trousers are grey.

toboldlygo · 24/10/2012 22:30

I only wear grey or brown trousers, or tweedy versions thereof, for work (symptom of being a waitress/bar staff for years and being forced to wear top to toe black) and wear them with brown shoes. Especially tan brogues, with which I am in love.

sweetheart · 25/10/2012 10:02

ok, looks like I'm going to have to get over my fear of grey trousers with brown shoes Grin I have tan boots so that sounds like the way to go.

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