<p>Thanks, Bunsen. Just ordered the Fringe Pashmina in green. I think it will go well with my black, cream and navy coats. What a deal! Great website, new to me – thanks!</p>
<p>I started shopping my DD’s closet while she’s at school since she burglarizes mine when she’s home. Have found all kinds of nice sweaters in the depths of the mess in there. She’ll never miss 'em. :)</p>
<p>OK…I’ve been missing for a long time but I have a question for any of you ladies out there in the corporate world. Or even if you’re not…and have an opinion. Are tall black leather boots (with a small pointy heel) OK to wear to work with black tights and skirt? So I thought yes and have worn them a few times…actually love them. The fall just below the knee and my skirts fall just above the knee. But now I’m having second thoughts. Too much?</p>
<p>toneranger, it seems that there are no hard and fast rules on boots. All sorts of heights seem to be acceptable with all sorts of hemlines. I rarely boots myself but the boot experts on this thread seem to favor a monochrome color scheme with same color boot, stockings and skirt.</p>
<p>For me, if I wear a boot at all it will be an accent piece in a high contrast color or festooned in faux fur or beads . . . boots make me a little crazy, don’t know why.</p>
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<p>Yes … IMO</p>
<p>Toneranger, I’m going to a formal business function tonight, and guess what I will be wearing? Black boots with black tights and a skirt suit.</p>
<p>Classic ( not trendy, casual or embellished) knee high boots would be fine in the majority of places, but perhaps not in the most formal and conservative of offices. The outfit itself is fine - for work I would aim for something with a toe that is not too pointy or rounded.</p>
<p>Neiman Marcus Last Call has everything on their site an extra 40 percent off till 6 PM central time tonight. Some great sweaters on there.</p>
<p>I’m sorry. I just find the whole boot obsession so truly tasteless. I think most of us very rarely really need a knee high boot in our lives.</p>
<p>“I’m sorry. I just find the whole boot obsession so truly tasteless. I think most of us very rarely really need a knee high boot in our lives.”</p>
<p>Sewhappy - I usually like your advice, but I am puzzled by this sentiment. I understand if you prefer not to wear boots or don’t like the look, but “tasteless”? </p>
<p>I happen to love boots - they are so warm in winter, especially with a dress or skirt. I am tall, so I don’t like to wear high heels and boots let me look dressy without adding height. Boots under boot cut jeans can look like shoes but are warmer and IMHO more comfortable. I even like the jeans tucked into boots for a nice fashion trend.</p>
<p>I just got a pair of Frye riding style boots and my shoemaker tells me they will last for years and I am pretty happy. Been wearing them as often as I can :)</p>
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<p>Okay a confession here. I grew up in Alberta, CA and I really needed boots. I’ve lived all over this country – Boston, NYC, Altlanta, SF, etc and I just feel as if women here wear boots for fashion reasons rather than weather reasons and look silly. Okay. I was recently in Scottsdale and there were women in boots. </p>
<p>I guess I just feel as if the fashion has to at least have more than a nod to season, it has to actually align with the season where one lives.</p>
<p>OK ladies…well I have a really nice pair of black tall leather boots with 2 inch kitten heels. The toes are a bit pointy. Not too different from the picture of Condie but with smaller heels. And right up to my knee and I’m tall so they’re quite tall. Would only wear them with black tights. It’s COLD here.
So we were at a family function over the weekend and one of the younger guys mentioned that an assistant in the office wears really tall black boots…up to just below her knees…and she looks like a hooker. Yikes! Then again, the execs in my office can wear some pretty crazy stuff including zebra shoes with spike heels. So I think I’m OK.
Thanks all for your input!! It’s supposed to snow here tomorrow so I’m wearing…BOOTS. Hah.</p>
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<p>So what? We wear lots of things for fashion. I love tall boots. I think they are very flattering and more comfortable than most other shoes. I don’t have a pair right now but I think they have become as close to a fashion necessity as anything right now.</p>
<p>Boots that stop below your knees are not " streetwalker" boots.
I think that if the coworkers skirt is more than a few inches long, a comment like that says more about the person making it, than it does the boot wearer.</p>
<p>I like boots because they are really comfortable. I have a high arch and narrow heel and slip on shoes don’t fit me. Boots are much easier to walk/stand in for an extended length of time than most shoes.</p>
<p>I don’t wear boots in the summer, except for rain, work or riding boots, but once it is fall, i wear them most everyday.</p>
<p>However, i looked at the above link, & the knee high boots referenced have 4" heels.
It is the fact that they are four inches high that makes them inappropriate for a business environment ( unless you don’t stand up or walk for work) not that they come up to your knee)</p>
<p>sewhappy: you certainly have a variety of very decided sartorial opinions :)</p>
<p>around here young women wear knee high boots all summer with shorts and skirts and dresses… a cute look once you get used to it, imho</p>
<p>I love boots and from November-March I wear them to the office almost every day. I own one pair of black knee high riding style boots that I sometimes wear with a black or grey skirt and black tights. Like EK above, I have a high arch and narrow heel and find that boots are much more comfortable and fit better than most shoes.</p>
<p>While Seattle ain’t no Alberta :D, it gets pretty damp and windy here in the winter, and a pair of boots protects my legs from the elements much better than any pair of shoes… from about November untill the end of April.</p>
<p>toneranger, did Sara Palin looked like a hooker in her super stylish, to-die-for boots? Heck, NOOOO! She looked stylish and classy. Go for it!</p>
<p>Yeah, but then you have all that leather encasing half your legs while you are at your desk all day or sitting in meetings, walking around rooms with central heat! </p>
<p>If I drill down I think I was permanently scarred by wearing boots throughout much of my childhood. Hated, hated, hated them!! Big heavy things, the getting into them and out of them, they felt like chains. So that must be the source of my dislike.</p>
<p>My DD loves boots. I love my DD. I’m going to be okay with this!</p>
<p>sewhappy, I haven’t worn any boots higher than ankle since the 1980s. And juuuuuuuuuust last week or so I saw these.</p>
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<p>Flat, soft, back zip. Now I’m thinking about giving calf boots a shot:).</p>