Purple dress with red shoes??

[normaleggy]

I have a party tomorrow night and I really want to wear a dark purple dress that I have but would I be crazy to wear it with red shoes? The only other alternative is black shoes but that looks a bit dull. I have no time or money to buy anything else, any thoughts?

Red sounds good to me

I like colour but the purple/ red combo gets a thumbs down from me. It will look as if you got dressed in the dark. Dress sounds lovely, and black shoes will not be boring with it.

No to red, you'll look like walking bruise. Go with the black instead.

My Mum used to say "Red shoes, no knickers!".

I have no idea why but thats what immediately came to mind reading the title.

I think it sounds great. Red and purple look good together: think of Princess Diana by the Taj Mahal. Black would be dull. Could you bring it all together with a necklace with some red in it? I have some red shoes and get so many compliments on them.

Depends on the purple and the red, but it can look great.

I think that many potentially very interesting dresses are rendered deeply boring by wearing them with the ubiquitous black tights and shoes .

It could work - depends on the style and actual colours.

What tights?

When the right shades, it's a great colour combination, go for it. I actually wore a purple top and red shoes last night, much better than boring black!

I just googled purple dress red shoes. A lot of ladies seem to carry it off.

Maybe add a red accessory (earrings, necklace, belt, bag?) to balance the red shoes?

Sorry, but I'm reminded of THAT POEM

Hmm...mixed reaction, I was hoping you'd all say yes! I think some of those pictures look great. I tend to wear quite a lot of black normally and I have to wear black shoes to work, so they don't really feel like going out shoes. I think just nude tights, don't want to wear black ones.

I also have a black or a navy dress I could wear which both work with the shoes so all is not lost, just really fancied wearing the purple one as it is more flattering.

I think you can - I have a purple coat with a red and purple lining and a red scarf looks very nice with it; I didn't think it would but it does.

I'd do the purple dress and red shoes but I'd bring it together with a red bag/or red earrings/necklace or something - even red lips. I think it'd look great. I am, however, an old goth so possibly not the most stylish of people.

Yes depends on the actual colours but the ones I'm thinking of (quite deep definite shades) work!

I don't personally like red and purple together (I prefer purple and orange, for example) but I guess it depends on the shades and individual colourings

I have a dress (weddings for the use of) that has magenta purple and red flowers. I wear a magenta pashmina and red shoes and it's fine.

Basically if it's a reddish purple or a really pure Royal purple it can work, violet or wine colour won't.

And if you can add a touch of red some where else great

But completely agree black shoes would be dullsville!

It's quite a deep plum colour and the shoes are not quite pillar box red but close to it.

I don't like it. I saw some photos of a friend I used to work with. It was her wedding pictures. She had a strapless purple dress with a sort of bow & red shoes & a red hair band. I thought it looked terrible. I couldn't understand why she choose to wear that for her wedding.