<p>coffeebeans, I wore those in blue to S & DIL’s wedding. They came off as soon as the dancing started.</p>
<p>I’m barefoot. </p>
<p>I would take a pic of my feet, I don’t think anyone really wants to see them. 
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<p>I’m barefoot, too. When I go out in an hour, I’ll be wearing my 12 yo Teva sandals. They are so darned comfortable I can’t bear to get rid of them.</p>
<p>MOG should feel fine wearing dress she loves if nothing better comes her way. YMMV. (your mileage may vary)</p>
<p>I have these in several colors. Very comfortable: <a href=“http://www.amazon.com/Crocs-10386-Womens-Patricia-Sandal/dp/B001IV5BW2”>http://www.amazon.com/Crocs-10386-Womens-Patricia-Sandal/dp/B001IV5BW2</a></p>
<p>I am wearing these shoes:
<a href=“Trippen Manolo in Black : Ped Shoes - Order online or 866.700.SHOE (7463).”>http://www.pedshoes.com/trippen_classic/trippen-manolo-in-black.html</a></p>
<p>Earlier today I attended the funeral of the elderly parent of a friend and wore these shoes:
<a href=“http://www.fluevog.com/code/?w[0]=gender:women&p=92&pp=1&view=detail&colourID=2093”>http://www.fluevog.com/code/?w[0]=gender:women&p=92&pp=1&view=detail&colourID=2093</a></p>
<p>@emeraldkitty4 - you should hit “my” Goodwill. It’s where I get all my Cole Haan shoes and new, tags on Ann Taylor everything</p>
<p>Can we not talk about shoes today? I have been wearing ONE shoe for the last three days–a Birkenstock sandal. It goes best with the “post-op” shoe I got from urgent care after I dropped a heavy dog ramp on my foot this weekend. Next to childbirth with no drugs, this is the most pain I have ever experienced. :(</p>
<p>Ouch! </p>
<p>Quick healing, sally305.</p>
<p>Ouch!
Ice & elevate!</p>
<p>Ive gone to the Goodwill on 15th looking for bathing suits, cause the women at water aerobics swear by it, but they either didn’t have my size or they were bikinis.
Im not wearing a bikini to water aerobics.
The Goodwill in Bellingham is great, I found all kinds of stuff there when I took D to look for Halloween costume material. Like a brand new Pendleton Stewart plaid wool kilt.
I don’t know when I will wear it, but I couldnt pass it up.</p>
<p>psst! head east</p>
<p>Sally - ouch! Hope it heals as fast as possible. I once dropped a chunk of frozen fish out of the top freezer on my big toe. Not as bad as a dog ramp, but it was paaaainful to wear shoes for quite a while… Needless to say, Im not a fan of frozen fish nor do I like top freezer fridges. </p>
<p>(Bad BB and dang Nordstrom rack - I’m holding a box with gorgeous Prada slides in it in my lap. The most amazing part it that there is no Prada’s infamous annoying metal logo on the outside of the shoe!). </p>
<p>I’m icing! I’m elevating! But I haven’t touched the Vicodin. Thanks for the support!</p>
<p>The Shoe Gods were looking out for me today. Good ol’ newly liberal Abercrombie had my back. I was fortunate to wear my Vans. <a href=“Product Search | Vans”>Product Search | Vans;
<p>And now with little piggies are free from their captivity. :))</p>
<p>coffeebean, I just saw your post with the shoe link. Lovely sandals. Me thinks you are trying too hard to follow the “wear beige and be silent” rule! Come on, MOGs need some fun, too! How about something jazzy-snazzy?! Some spiked little stilettos would be awesome. Just kidding. Your sandals look nice.</p>
<p>Ladies, how about a fantasy shoe shopping spree for our OP? What kind of outrageous, fun, glamorous, or simply bizarre shoes should she wear with her MOG dress?! Any heel height or platform will do, since she will be wearing them virtually (as in cyber reality). :D</p>
<p>EK: I would not buy a used bathing suit. I’m surprised Goodwill accepts them and sells them. It’s like used underwear. Ewwwwwww.</p>
<p>Since taupe is pretty close to beige, like BB, I have been thinking about “wear beige and be silent” since the very first post, but with a different response. I hesitated to be the first to bring it up. It is all in the eye of the beholder but playing off the taupe/beige stereotype is fun to me. Seeing you in a beautiful taupe lace dress at the wedding my response would be: “clever” and if someone told me you wore the same dress to the wedding of another son: “very clever” and if your bff then told me she was borrowing the dress in the near future for her own child’s wedding: “I want to hang out with you guys and I’m buying the first round!” If during that outing you told me you were having your dry cleaners preserve it in a special box for posterity: “GENIUS” and I would only hope your great great granddaughters understood the significance of this treasure of a dress.</p>
<p>Thinking about BB’s statement shoes.<br>
I actually agree with the sentiment behind the “wearing beige” idea. It was extremely difficult for me to dress down for my son’s wedding but felt it appropriate. My goal was no one notice what I was wearing one way or another. It sort of backfired in the case of our side since some were clearly disoriented by seeing me in run of the mill clothes. The photos were very important to my DIL. In them you notice her and then her mother, not me. Part of my thinking on this is due to my own wedding photos in which my long deceased MIL wears a white dress. I just smile and shake my head. If she had wanted to let future generations know just what sort of woman she was, she couldn’t have made a better statement than choosing that dress for the occasion. And doing her best to insert herself center frame in every shot.</p>
<p>I like a statement dress and shoes for the rehearsal dinner, if you are doing the traditional sort of rehearsal dinner that the groom’s parents host. Let BB take you shopping and go wild. I love that idea as well.</p>
<p>On a side note I would like to point out the likelihood of finding a MOG dress of similar quality (at a similar price) to one bought six years ago is almost nil imho. Things have changed that drastically since the financial blowup of 08. again imho.</p>
<p>Some of us may notice it’s not in style.<br>
It’s the custom to wear a new dress for such occasions.
Oh Dear. While appreciating any opportunity to acquire a new dress as much as the next woman, if it’s the Wedding Industrial Complex trying to convince me, on behalf of the fast fashion merchandising media, that purchasing a new MOB or MOG dress is some sort of point of etiquette, then, as a child of the sixties who lived through the revolution to overturn a whole lot of Ridiculous and Oppressive Dress Codes - I REFUSE. That doesn’t mean I won’t wear something appropriate. The taupe dress sounds appropriate.</p>
<p>It will look odd in the photos.<br>
It will only look odd if you buy into the idea different wedding parties require different dresses. Someone upthread pointed out the absurdity with this as regards wedding dresses. We wear our sister’s, mother’s, grandmother’s and no one thinks that strange. Or at least they don’t where I come from. We like the idea of the tradition. Afterwards we preserve them for posterity. At this point I could do a couple of paragraphs about the current trend for trashing wedding gowns; whether it’s a sort of nouveau riche equivalent of lighting cigars with $100 bills, or maybe a thumbing of the nose at the whole outdated concept of the virginal white gown in contemporary culture. However, I will spare you. : )</p>
<p>The OP did solicit opinions and this is my very well considered response. No No No It is NOT tacky. It is the opposite.</p>
<p>ETA: oops! sorry Sally for talking about shoes. feel better soon.</p>
<p>@ CountingDown, I’m with you on the Tevas. I bought a new pair for a trip to France three years ago but I am still wearing my 10+ year old ones. For years they were my go-to-every-day summer shoes (I work at home). Last year I switched to topsiders. (Maybe I was feeling nostalgic.) They sure don’t last like Tevas. By the end of last summer the sole had worn through (and they no longer resole.) Still, I kept those for working in the yard and bought two more pairs last spring.</p>
<p>Oops, I missed this last page. Sorry, Sally!</p>
<p>I like the idea of something new and flashier for the rehearsal dinner</p>