What to wear on legs/feet with dresses in (late) spring?

[vesela]

This winter I've been wearing skirts/dresses with leggings or ribbed tights and long (v. warm) bikerish boots. I have these boots for when it gets warmer.

In summer I usually wear skirts and bare legs anyway, so no problem there, but what do I do before then? In the past I'd have worn jeans or cotton/linen trousers and something cool on top until it was warm enough for bare legs, but I'm right off trousers at the moment.

Can I go right up to summer wearing leggings/opaques and boots? Unless I'm going out, I don't really like shoes (either flat or heeled) with skirts and thinner tights - they feel "too smart" and not easy enough to wear. Plus I have skinny ankles which look odd at the bottom of a size 14/12 body without boots to balance out (although not so bad when my legs are bare).

I'm thinking that leggings plus shoes might be a better option, but need to find a good way of doing that.

(I work at home, so work clothes aren't an issue.)

Thanks!

well y sister goes straight from opaques and boots to flip flops and nairy a thing inbetween

i tend to start wearing trousers more when its those " freezing at 8 am but hot at 3pm" kind of days with slip on shoes

yes - I'd forgotten the trousers and slip on shoes stage. Maybe I can't avoid them...

I think I will do leggings with dress and ballet pumps,or trousers and shoes.
Possibly straight leg jeans and shoes/ballet pumps/converse.

yy, leggings with ballet shoes.

If your skirts are knee length or above, I'd still wear opaque tights/leggings/footless tights and wear ballet style pumps with them.

legging on way out
to be replaced by tracky bums

this with jacket and heels lusherroney

Thanks. Will probably go with leggings. It's what my 2-year-old DD wore at that sort of time last year, anyway, and she looked pretty good She has some nice brownish and blue/grey leggings, though (thanks Zara).

My skirts are either knee-length or a bit above. I still can't get used to the idea of leggings cutting off at the ankle and then bare skin, though.

I don't understand tracksuit bottoms - they are a major fashion faux pas - if you are serious about exercise you wear proper sports clothes - of which tracksuit bottoms aren't and if you are not partaking in any sort of sport you should steer clear!

This spring I will be wearing little tea dresses and boyfriend cardies with leggings underneath, with ballet pumps until it gets warm enough for birkenstocks which will then be in service until the first frost when I am forced to get the boot collection out again!

but if it is true about leggings on way out (and it is about time) then you will look wrong madamec.

i am getting nervous about these carrot trousers. i am already that shape and do not need any help.

vesela am with you on the skinny ankles, don't you find ballet flats + leggings/skinny jeans draws attention? unless they stop just a bit below the knee or cover the whole ankle.

yes, tracky bums are big thing now

Vesela - if you work at home, can't you wear jeans and pumps etc until it warms up a bit and on warmer days, bare legs with skirts?

lucie - yes, especially since DH usually does the preschool run in the morning I'm enjoying not wearing trousers as much, though.

fishie, I've never actually worn leggings/flats, but I have a feeling they might. OTOH tights and flat shoes are as bad. I saw a photo of myself the other day in a coat with dark tights and shoes and it didn't look good. I've got fairly broad shoulders, and stick calves look unbalanced. In summer with a t-shirt on it's better.

I'm the other way around - have a smallish top half but awful thighs and calves. I hate my calves (they're like horse riders'calves and so I never wear any skirts/trousers that aren't long. Wish I could wear shorter skirts.

I have a problem with leggings and ballet flats as my feet are whiter than a snowmans, do people wear socks with them ever? I can't seem to work that look

I wear flesh coloured fish nets in spring. They look much better than they sound, honest. M&S used to do them.

Sorry but tracksuit bottoms = chav in my mind and always will - they are what chavvy women wear to get their kids fropm school because they have no fashion sense whatsoever or just don;t bother about how they put thenselves together.

And tracksuit bottoms are so not flattering if you have anything but a very tight pert bottom - whereas leggings are because you can wear them under dresses, skirts, tunics etc.

I was wondering that too, Poppity.

(While I realise not everyone wants to look like my 2-year-old DD, she wears hers with contrasting socks and it looks good! Grey-brown dress, pink leggings and green socks a particularly nice combo.)

ah tea dress and cardy is old hat and boring MC
get some tracky bums

Dresses over footless tights/leggings with ballet flats. I wear flesh coloured pop socks ...or fake tan my feet!

I have seen women carry off the same look but with wedge heels with an ankle strap, but I am a six footer, so no way I could pull it off.

Poppity, get some of that instant wash off tan stuff and rub into exposed foot area,round bottom of leg and a bit further up to take glare off. Rimmell/L'oreal do it in a tube, just a tiny amount works.

oh dear! I am obviously a chav then. I don't think my friends (all non tracky wearers) would agree though!

I do also wear the dress/tunic and leggings combo