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What footwear for skinny jeans/jeggings in the spring?

73 replies

LaDiDaDi · 13/03/2010 16:22

What should I wear with my new super skinny jeans?

these?

Any other ideas? Will plain ballerinas look ok?

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cocolepew · 13/03/2010 16:26

Nooooooooooo they're vile Plain flats or if you wear them above your ankle converse with no socks.

Sadlou81 · 13/03/2010 16:26

course
saw a gal in cool tiny brogues

Sadlou81 · 13/03/2010 16:27

converse plus skinnys = krutsy the clown

cocolepew · 13/03/2010 16:27

only for you lot with clown feet already [admires dainty feet]

Sadlou81 · 13/03/2010 16:28

or like a strange book end that might fall over

brimfull · 13/03/2010 16:28

short boots
or plimsole type

LaDiDaDi · 13/03/2010 17:48

Hmm, don't like brogues or plimsoles.

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poshsinglemum · 13/03/2010 22:48

high heels are the only solution.

Caz10 · 13/03/2010 22:50

Watching with interest...

Also why no socks? With anything, it seems? I HATE bare feet in pumps etc - sweaty, rubby and sore, bleee

janeiteisFedUp · 13/03/2010 23:14

DD1 tried some canvas pump things with wedge heels today, in Next of all places. They looked nice with her skinny jeans and she had little pop sock things on with them, so no sweaty feet.

Those silver spaceman boot things in the OP are vile.

traceybath · 14/03/2010 07:46

I've been trying on different footwear options with my skinnies and concluded that flats look fine but not terribly flattering.

But wedge heeled sandals look fab - leg lengthening too.

sailorsgal · 14/03/2010 08:06

I love french sole ballerinas to wear with my skinny jeans.

MamaG · 14/03/2010 08:15

No to converse

NO to socks

Think wedges aer teh way to go

wear bootcut jeans with yer converse/flips

LaDiDaDi · 14/03/2010 10:02

I've ordered some fly london wedges (3 pairs but will only keep 1). Will still want something flat and a bit more sandally for later in the spring/summer.

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cyb · 14/03/2010 10:03

I'm wearing grey shoe boots with a little bit of tanned ankle showing

cyb · 14/03/2010 10:04

I think flats with skinnies look awful unless there is some sort of cropped aspect to the trousers

MarthaFarquhar · 14/03/2010 10:04

ballet pumps to hold the fort until you can dust off the gladiator sandals.

GreenMonkies · 14/03/2010 10:11

Those hideous silver things wouldn't look good with anything. But then the real style disaster is skinny jeans/jeggings.

Really.

Just don't wear them.

Get your boot cut jeans on, you can wear pretty much anything you like with them!

cyb · 14/03/2010 10:15

bootcuts =mumsy

MamaG · 14/03/2010 12:55

piss off - it depends on the person wearing them

Actually I do look MASSIVELY mumsy today

bootcut jeans
hoodie (!)
birkenstock clog things (they're my "kitchen door" shoes but I have shuffled around in tehm all day )

SuSylvester · 14/03/2010 12:56

i have on a fleece [gasp]

MamaG · 14/03/2010 13:07
SuSylvester · 14/03/2010 13:07

sport watching
i tell you
it was windy

MamaG · 14/03/2010 13:08
cyb · 14/03/2010 15:36

bootcuts have their place, but folk disregard skinny style out of hand. They look more modern, imo. I'm wearing wide legged jazz pants and a dressing gown FWIW