Just got feet, don't got SHOES

Wow, endless.com really makes it practically impossible to paste their urls anywhere, don't they.

Never mind, they weren't nice enough for that dress, anyway.

Okay, here's a reasonable, on-sale Rockport mary jane, in a navy spectator: http://www.rockport.com/mary-mary-jane-womens/marymaryjane,default,pd.html?dwvar_marymaryjane_color=marymaryjane_petroluniform&start=5&cgid=womens-footwear-categories-dress&dyncatsale=null&dyncatnew=null

How about a bronze Clark mary jane?

http://www.clarksusa.com/eng/product/plush_silk/87690

Yay! Love these suggestions. I was leaning heavily towards sandals of some sort so you are steering me in new directions!

Don't worry about heel height, either. ALL of these (including many of my own selection) are too high, but I will either find an appropriate substitute or deal with it (depends on how much public walking I will do).

I don't think anybody will be unhappy if I wear red shoes but I want to blend in with the background for the most part (I accidentally matched the dress to the wedding colors even!).

The dress is real life is a really dark navy, almost black, so I think it will be hard to match that.

So if I don't go with red, what color should I look for? Tan?

XP OMG those Rockports! I would never in a million years looked twice at them but they are maybe perfect?

I don't find browns and tans to be formal enough, usually. Wd go with a metallic or a blush-pink/taupe or something before I'd wear actual brown for a wedding.

http://www.amazon.com/Naturalizer-Womens-Vamoose-T-Strap-Pump/dp/B002GWUT9W

I feel those are too casual for the dress and maybe also the occasion, but they have other things going for them? Price, comfort brand, and the right general cut/shape.

Irony: I am posting to this thread from the podriatrist's office.

Surely they don't disapprove of Clark's, Rockports, and Aerosoles???

I need to take a quick break to say that this shoe is breaking my heart:

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/81BxVeV8uBL._SL1500_.jpg

Here's another one for Jenny:

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B001PBF8V4/ref=pd_lpo_k2_dp_sr_1?pf_rd_p=486539851&pf_rd_s=lpo-top-stripe-1&pf_rd_t=201&pf_rd_i=B0015D3TRC&pf_rd_m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&pf_rd_r=0M9T6W9B3T7KQWVP0Q7F

Re: doctor approval: She was wearing an adorable pair of black Mary Jane heels very similar in style to your recommendations. I have a very hip (and attractive) podiatrist.

What about these? I know you said tan is too informal for a wedding but it is not a super formal wedding and I like the style, plus it's a good heel height and it comes in my giant foot size, and while it's a little over my preferred price point, it's reasonable because they are practical enough that I can wear them again. However, I will defer to the shoe experts if this is the Wrong Direction:

http://www.zappos.com/culture-phit-lila-tan

Also, I really like that toe. It's clever.

I'm still looking! I'm not totally sold on those.

They have them in light gray, too. Is that better?

http://www.6pm.com/culture-phit-lila-light-grey

I never have any success wearing slingbacks. They're always either too tight or loose enough that the back falls down a bit and gets walked on and the shoes fall off. I have to be securely strapped into my shoes (no clog types) so I can't be dealing with that. Other than that those are cute.

Would totally go with red shoes, but again, that's just me :)

Well, there are also these - http://www.6pm.com/culture-phit-gianna-red

ok now you're talkin

Okay yes, the second ones!! I also look at slingbacks with deep suspicion, because they never really work for me. kinder otm.

I want all these shoes!!!!

the red ones!

i don't much care for slingbacks either after a bad blister during my high school graduation. don't think i've given them a chance since, and that was a long time and many shoes ago!

what's the word for this kind of squat, round-toed, chunky-heeled shoe?

http://www.6pm.com/naya-briar-black-leather-suede?zlfid=a9

it sort of reminds me of grimm brothers fairy tales or something

Alright, I got the red ones.

Those are pretty, Tracer. That's the only word I know for them. "Pretty."

i would call them solid or wearable heels. not sure if they have an official name?

I think they're "kooky", but then I like the red ones upthread with a PINWHEEL on the toe.

see, for me they're pretty staid! reasonable.

but attractive

I wish my new shoes would hurry up and get here.

Oh also: THANK YOU. Your guidance was crucial. I would have worn shoes without your help but they would not be nearly as fantastic. A+++ shoe advice itt, especially Laurel.

Any time, of course. That was fun.

that dress is adorable!
chiming in late, but i think it requires fun shoes with a short heel - and there seem to be many recommendations here! the shoe wavelength, we are on it

i think the tulip-shaped scallop on the heel of that last pair is super duper cute fwiw!

hello, my name is Mandee and I have a shoe addiction

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v209/Mandalion/photo-1.jpg
These are my shoes today. They are probably my favorite pair! I got them from a thrift shop about 6 months ago.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v209/Mandalion/photo1-1.jpg
See those green bins? Yeah, there are five of them. When I moved into my house last December, ALL of my shoes fit into those bins underneath the bench in the front entryway. Now the shoes have begun to INFEST THE REST OF THE HOUSE. They no longer all fit in the bins.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v209/Mandalion/photo2.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v209/Mandalion/photo3-1.jpg
THEY ARE TAKING OVER MY LIFE

haha omg, but they're all so cute!

I got my shoes!!! They are even more excellent in person than in the link (and the red is a lot more subtle - it's really quite lovely). And I am totally afraid to say this out loud for fear of jinxing everything in my life ever, but they are actually quite comfortable, too! I might even wear these to work one day. What?!?!?! Yeah!

(I'll post pics of them in action when it's not the end of the day and my feet are not all swole.)

Yay! It's funny, one of my most comfortable pairs of heels are similar to this:
http://www.unitednude.com/upload/productimages/264/photo-0000.jpg

but you wouldn't think it to look at. Yet I've got flats that rub like hell. I kind of don't buy shoes online any more because you can't predict how they'll feel on.

That's… kind of crazy, those shoes.

I have to buy online. Nobody sells my size in stores. ;_;

Well, no, I can think of two stores that potentially sell my size but they are hit or miss, style-wise.

Are you an 11 too Jenny? Is sad world for us! :(

Yes! 11 WIDE, even. I used to wear a 10 regular but my feet got bigger in the last five years or so.

Oh man guys that sucks. I wear a 10 and it's pretty bad but I know 11 is worse just from looking at selections. :( Weirdly though I've been fitting 9.5s in some shoes lately. idk. Anyway I was in an Office store in London once and asked to see the most excellent pair of mary janes I've ever found in my size and the fucking asshole of a sales clerk looked at me and said, in the most snotty voice imaginable, "We don't even make that size".

Argh, kill kill! I hate snotty clerks. Like, there is NOTHING I can do to change my shoe size, don't judge me! Jenny.. you've scared me. I hope that mine don't get too much bigger!

I had bunions and then I had bunion surgery but I also have tailor's bunions so between the bone deformities and the hardware in my feet to correct the bone deformities, it's a wonder they aren't the size of loaves of Wonderbread. So don't worry!!! Unless you are full of bunions.

ENBB that clerk is the worst! What a snot. I got a similar "We don't carry ANY shoes in wide!" pile of snot from a clerk at one of those shoe stores that carry Danskos and Naots and Merril and whatnot. I mean, fuck you!

Jenny I got a new pair of Culture Phit mary janes for my cumpleaños and I wanted to see if you have been enjoying those red ones you got for the wedding. Mine are shockingly soft/pliable/comfortable/cute. Kind of pleased that I can wear heels on a more regular basis if I just get fancy padded comfort heels!!

http://a2.zassets.com/images/z/1/3/1/1310462-p-DETAILED.jpg

they're kind of dull, tbh, but they're going to be my everyday go-with-everything shoes, so they can't be too splashy.

Whoa! I am wearing them today for the first time (I'm attending a benefit event tonight as L3slie's date so I thought I should put a little effort into it) so this is timely!

I can't walk in heels at all so it's kind of a challenge, frankly, but they are comfortable in that nothing is pinching or binding or rubbing. I just need to practice not looking like a lumbering beast. (also why I'm wearing them as I don't want wedding attendees to be like "great ceremony, but why did you have a clumsy rhinoceros perform it?)

I have contemplating additional purchases from this company.

does I Love Style have a men's pants/"trousers" thread. I may need some help

Wow a clumsy rhinoceros typed that post with her rhinoceros thumbs, that's for sure.

Xp the Bonobos pants thread is kind of the ad hoc men's pants thread, sometimes.

xp - I really like the ones I bought -- they're solid, attractive, and totally padded in the sole (waaay more so than any other heel I've ever worn). Let's see if I can wear them two days in a row without pain, but outlook is positive so far.

I think there is a trousers thread...not sure what it's called though?

hey metallic rip-off version of the prada shoes everyone here (except me) hated! love these too

http://i553.photobucket.com/albums/jj379/philtwo/asosprada.jpg

http://us.asos.com/ASOS-ASOS-MONROE-Platform-Creeper-Shoes/wm10a/?iid=1702640&mporgp=L0FTT1MvQVNPUy1NT05ST0UtUGxhdGZvcm0tQ3JlZXBlci1TaG9lcy9Qcm9kLw..