Putting my best foot forward

The theme for day 7 of the New Year Style Challenge is: Do your shoes shine? My immediate response was "yes, I always polish my shoes"! but obviously this isn't what Sylvia was getting at. She was emphasising the importance of the shoes you choose when you are planning what outfit to wear. The simpler the outfit, the fancier your shoes can be and vice versa.

I love wearing funky shoes, however most of the amazing trendy shoes that I try on don't love me back, so I often have to settle for safe and boring shoes that I know will be comfortable. As I'm just over 5' tall, very high heels wouldn't look right on me anyway, which is fortunate given my fussy feet! I'm always looking for fun shoes that are good for walking in and as my style is casual chic, low-heeled or flat shoes suit both me and my lifestyle. If I'm wearing an outfit in neutral colours, my favourite way to add a pop of colour is with my shoes, which is why I have red laced shoes, green laced shoes and leopard print ballerinas as well as the usual grey, black and navy shoes and boots.

Our challenge for day 7 was to pick an outfit and create three different looks in Polyvore by varying the shoes to go with it. If I was looking in my wardrobe for the shoes I would probably pick my grey low-heeled booties, navy loafers  and black medium-heeled shoes, however I thought it would be more fun to use shoes that I don't own to see what I could come up with. The top and trousers above are already in my wardrobe, so I've used these for my basic outfit.

I will be using Polyvore first of all to create my three looks, however once I've finished there the outfits will appear on my Pinterest board. Hopefully this will be completed by 18.00 Spanish time as I also need to complete today's challenge!

FABruary Style Challenge - Coloured Shoes

I could claim that I have already met today's challenge (coloured shoes) in an earlier post where I wore some red shoes, however I'm over half-way through the challenge so it's no time to quit.  This time I decided to wear my green shoes, just to prove that I have more than one pair of coloured shoes in my wardrobe.
Like many women, when I was younger my shoes tended to be black, black or black, with an occasional brown or navy pair to break the monotony. I was a bit more adventurous in the summer months, but during winter the dreariness of the weather was usually reflected in the dreariness of the shoes I wore.

Not now though.  Since I retired, I have enjoyed being a bit more adventurous in what I wear. I no longer work in an office with a dress code to adhere to, so I can wear what I want.  Sadly I had to throw out a pair of purple shoes today as they were starting to split, but the sales are still on so I will be looking for a colourful replacement.  In the meantime, here are my green shoes.

I've worn this scarf before during February, and no doubt I will wear it again, as it has so many different colours in it, which helps to make my outfits look a bit more colour coordinated.  As well as the green of my shoes, it contains the exact shade of my top - how lucky is that?!  I just wish that I had a pair of blue suede shoes.....