Trainers - leopard print or chocolate suede?

[TwentyTwoLizards]

Help me MNetters. I am early 40s and finding my own style again after years of running after small children. Fashion has changed in the last 10 or 15 years (where has the time gone) and I’m feeling a bit lost. What do you think of these trainers to go with wide leg trousers? I liked the idea of the leopard print but wasnt convinced when I tried them on. Are they good or just naff? I don’t usually wear leopard print but love it on others. Should I play it safe with the chocolate suede trainers or no?

I do frequent long haul travel for work so they seemed like quite comfy options.

Option 1 - Leopard Print https://www.johnlewis.com/carvela-veneto-leopard-print-trainers-multi/p115479724?size=5

Option 2 - Chocolate suede
https://www.selfridges.com/GB/en/product/carvela-daze-suede-trainers_R04660722/#colour=DARK%20BROWN

@StylishAndBeautiful Leopard prints are great in smaller amounts. So shoes or a scarf. A blouse if under a jacket. It’s about quality and finesse.

@ProfessorofDarkArts , 'granny' and 'mumsy' are rather negative. Curve does suggest outsize and petite suggests short.

@MeetMeOnTheCorner , a touch of it might be ok but it tends to look a bit cheap.

@StylishAndBeautiful Why do you think Gucci and Prada, not to mention Valentino and Max Mara are cheap? Only in the uk is this slur used against beautifully dressed women!

@StylishAndBeautiful @MeetMeOnTheCorner personally I like to channel our best-beloved-dear-departed Dolly - "It takes a lot of money to look this cheap".

Not unless your granny is very young indeed.

You have misinterpreted my use of the word cheap. I meant it looks like £ even if it's £££.

If you're defending writing off an entire range with a "granny" insult then I don't think we'll be agreeing

It wasn't me who used the word granny but in an earlier post I did point out that I thought the brand was probably for an older audience. In actual fact I'd think a typical granny-aged person wearing those trainers would look pretty cool but the OP is considerably younger.

@ProfessorofDarkArts I’m 71. What’s aimed at me? What should I avoid? Don’t need curve shapes any more but I like Max Mara brands. Is that ok for my age?

🤣 Good lord, just stop.

Wear what you like, the thread wasn't about you 🤷🏻‍♀️

Sketchers are the older audience if anyone wants to be ageist.

my mum 90+ has bought her first pair.

or maybe she's on trend.

In that shape I prefer a sports brand to a Kurt Geiger/Carvela/Dune creation. Three of my trainers are Puma and they are proper workhorses.

thesportsedit.com/products/puma-club-ii-era-feline-sneakers-chocolate-taupe-408267-02?currency=GBP&variant=57203773440380&gclsrc=aw.ds&gad_source=1&gad_campaignid=21347415817&gbraid=0AAAAADhz-OOtB5Pfs20Z12wsEn5Y0cqrQ&gclid=CjwKCAjww-3VBhAcEiwAwUUIu80-QIxtX8-_a2GWfmw_9NrX66a4GVMhrbH9EhwN4txl_S2Gt8XOQhoCwM0QAvD_BwE

Leopard print all the way! The brown ones are boring

Brown but not that brown one

Hate leopard print, there's just something so cheap about it.🤑so I'm going with brown

https://www.next.co.uk/style/su417898/h61551?gclsrc=aw.ds&gad_source=1&gad_campaignid=9134454157&gclid=CjwKCAjww-3VBhAcEiwAwUUIu-WCGxm0gv6iAq8Czi85SVJa0lEVqbqHhim_p-P9XMMyH9pxpkj7FxoCq8oQAvD_BwE

Bit or both in these adidas ones? I love the dull on leopard print though!

Have to disagree about Sketchers being for older people. My 8yr loves them, as do I 😂

😮

@ProfessorofDarkArts I just wanted to know if I failed the style police? You have ideas about age which wasn’t anything to do with the thread!

Gosh, there’s some right bloody nonsense on here!

I prefer the brown, because I don’t like the silver bit on the leopard ones, though I do like leopard print generally.

I have a couple of friends who wear Carvella; they’re mid 50s. It’s not a brand I generally look at, but no particular reason why.

I like the Hoff ones that someone posted too.

These are by far the nicest on this thread!

I’m ten years older than you and don’t think I’m old enough to wear Carvela. Might be a bit mainstream but I’d rather have adidas or something a bit more fashionable.

https://www.office.co.uk/view/product/office_catalog/2,20/5392189507?_gl=1kcnt7b_upMQ.._gs*MQ..&gclid=CjwKCAjww-3VBhAcEiwAwUUIu6syp09p5ZK6OPvRGxHmPp4Z5dxQKnSlayGO_yiuFuIe5bdL0O_U3RoC4y0QAvD_BwE&gbraid=0AAAAAD19QKGJv635U48NQsscR73JrYNDK

https://www.office.co.uk/view/product/office_catalog/2,20/2156953088?_gl=12zn97d_upMQ.._gs*MQ..&gclid=CjwKCAjww-3VBhAcEiwAwUUIu6syp09p5ZK6OPvRGxHmPp4Z5dxQKnSlayGO_yiuFuIe5bdL0O_U3RoC4y0QAvD_BwE&gbraid=0AAAAAD19QKGJv635U48NQsscR73JrYNDK

https://www.office.co.uk/view/product/office_catalog/2,20/2156953641?_gl=11pcxblt_upMQ.._gs*MQ..&gclid=CjwKCAjww-3VBhAcEiwAwUUIu6syp09p5ZK6OPvRGxHmPp4Z5dxQKnSlayGO_yiuFuIe5bdL0O_U3RoC4y0QAvD_BwE&gbraid=0AAAAAD19QKGJv635U48NQsscR73JrYNDK

https://www.keenfootwear.co.uk/products/womens-jasper-dark-earth-birch

I had a pair of Carvela ankle boots when I was in my 30s. It’s ridiculous to write off their entire range.

Everybody and his dog wearing Adidas though.