Dressing Young 2025

This is my thinking about nude shoes.

On me, nude shoes blend into my skin tone. Not everyone has the same skin tone. So if the shoes lengthen your leg, great! On me, I feel that they make my super pale skin sallow. Maybe if I got a fake tan, but mostly I’m lazy.

Also I’m a metallic person, I’ve been into a gold shoe. I feel it warms up my pasty skin tone. :rofl:

@conmama I like those shoes!

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Speaking of matching skin tone. Louboutin the god of fancy footwear makes a collection called Nudes. These are best sellers like pumps in 5 or so different colors matching a spectrum of skin tones.

Here is an example:

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W. Kleinberg! You can pretty much customize to exactly what you want. Great quality, so you’ll have it forever. Not cheap but if you get something classic, reasonable.

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Sadly I’m one of those who could never wear much of any heel—wobbly ankles!

Thank you for that! It always bugs me when people refer to “nude” as though it’s a single color! (Although, as much as I appreciate the concept, it is highly unlikely I’ll be in the market for a $1095.00 high heel sandal.)

lol there are also more “affordable” kitten heel pumps that would set you back a measly $700. lol But have to give credit where it is due! Louboutin does get the idea that “nude” is not a single color.

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Those are beautiful belts. Really like how some styles offer a choice of gold or silver buckles.

I’d much rather pay more for something that will last.

Thanks!

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If you are willing to spend up to $500 on a belt, there’s plenty of options that open up!

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Some in there are in the $200-$250 range :wink:

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I would suggest classic black shoes with that dress, they won’t stand out or distract, and unlike nude they will go with any skin tone.

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I stopped at DSW and picked up a pair of gold sandals just to see with my green dress. Nope! As mostly everyone said, they took away from dress. Your eyes went straight to the sandals and it just looked all wrong. I’m taking them back tomorrow and waiting on my gold ASOS ones I ordered. I just ordered a couple nude ones today. When they are all in I’ll take a pic for you to see what I mean.

What I’d really like but I can’t find are open toed D’Orsay pumps in a nicer fabric like satin. I have a pair of champagne with a knot on the vamp that I purchased years ago but my feet have widened. I’ll show you those, too.

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It will be fun to see the shoes with the gorgeous dress! I have had a difficult time finding fabric (satin, etc.) shoes for more formal occasions lately. I default to metallic in these situations often. I’m wearing gold shoes as MOB in September which I’m fine with but would have considered nude if I could have found one that wasn’t leather or suede. The gold ones happen to be very comfortable so that’s a huge plus.

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Longchamps makes nice quality classic belts too!

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I was in Talbots today and thought of you. A plain black/silver belt was $55 I think, but maybe $65.

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Oh, we have a Talbots store here.

I looked at Dillards today. Gold, gold, gold

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Just got a Me and Em catalog with some good, but again not inexpensive, belts in it. Sorry for always finding stuff at higher price points.

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Had to look up Me and Em because I’ve never heard of that store.

Dang. What a beautiful dress! Two problems: (a) it is $1,000 and (2) I don’t have any place or occasion to wear it! :laughing:

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I don’t have places to wear a lot of their stuff. But look at all the money it saves us! Great dress!

Fwiw, the things I have bought from them over the years (often on sale) have been in steady rotation and held up really well. They claim their clothes are meant to build capsules with and to be versatile, but ime, most are e a little too trendy to be true classics.

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@conmama:

Pale gold satin D’Orsay:
https://www.macys.com/shop/product/michael-michael-kors-womens-jaida-pumps?ID=19363372&pla_country=US&CAGPSPN=pla&gStoreCode=174&gQT=1&gRefinements=SEMANTIC_COLOR:Gold

Nude Leather D’orsay:
https://www.macys.com/shop/product/michael-michael-kors-womens-jaida-pumps?ID=19363372&pla_country=US&CAGPSPN=pla&gStoreCode=174&gQT=1&gRefinements=SEMANTIC_COLOR:Gold

Champagne Satin D’Orsay:

PLatinum Gold Metallic Suede:

Nude Leather D’Orsay:

Same D’Orsay in Rafia:

Natural Satin Slingback:

Nude Satin D’Orsay:

Gold Satin:

AFTER I POSTED THIS, I SEE SOME IMAGES THAT SHOW UP IN MY POST ARE NOT THE COLOR I NAMED, BUT IF YOU GO TO THE LINK, GO TO THE COLOR I STATED.

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The other issue with light colored outfits like that gorgeous dress is that on ME, they are dirt magnets. I just can’t stay clean and it makes me SO self-conscious! I avoid light colors because of this—I know myself too well!

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