fashion help please! I need to look HIP!

[walterismydog]

I have these boots:

They are very dark brown. I wear them all the time with jeans and leggings, but can I wear them with a solid black dress? It's a dress similar to this:



I am accessorizing with a black/muted creme hoop scarf and bright funky earrings (turquoise/blues). I'm also thinking about wearing these grey leopard tights (they are pretty mild leopard, you hardly even notice when they're on unless you look closely):
Tights/hose are necessary because it's chilly and the dress is short (about 5 inches above knee), and if I have to bend or reach I would prefer to not show my underoos.

I really really really do not want to wear my black boots, which are high heels. My other black boots are fug utilitarian snow boots. I need something comfortable, and these are the most comfortable boots I own. This is for a long night of hostessing at a hip restaurant and then going to a concert immediately after. I don't know why I'm overthinking this so much. This is a new, very part-time job and the only dress requirement is that we look "fashionable" - which I am only a little bit. Am I going to look like a hot mess? TIA!

[alzi]

whoa, too much going on. either plain tights or plain boots. cute dress though.

[walterismydog]

OK, usually I wear this exact outfit with the black boots, but I just cannot stand and run around a restaurant in 3 inch heels for 6 hours. I need to re-think the whole thing. Bah!

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I'm biased because I HATE cowboy boots with dresses. The woman married to my brother wore a white dress with cowboy boots to my wedding. Half the girls in HS thought it was cute. I never could get behind it. NMS, but like alzi said..tooooo much going on.

[iamgrace]

No brown and black! No brown and black!!

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Sept 28, 2012 16:39:06 GMT -5 iamgrace said:

No brown and black! No brown and black!!

Ditto

[liverandonions]

Sept 28, 2012 16:39:06 GMT -5 iamgrace said:

No brown and black! No brown and black!!

:heart: :Y: (*)

[walterismydog]

I know I know! ARGH! I am just struggling with comfort vs. style. I'm nixing the black dress and going with another dress. Aye chihuahua this is HAAARD yall.

[alzi]

i think brown and black is ok, but not with the patterned tights.

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Don't you have a pair of black flats or something? Wear those for hostessing. Put the boots on in the car.

Ditch the leopard tights, and all the other accessory business and go for more simple stuff.

[eb777888]

I also agree you can mix brown and black if the colors are right, but those boots and those tights? Noooooo. The dress looks like it's cut nicely, I like it. I'd accessorize it with a chunky bracelet and maybe some nice earrings. I'd get rid of the boots, but I don't like cowboy boots unless I'm going to the rodeo which is, well, never.

[walterismydog]

OK maybe I'll just change my shoe idea away from boots. I just love boots and I am SO excited it is the season. The only problem now is that I hate my black flats with this dress, my black heels are like 4 inches (not good for restaurant), and I don't really have anything else that's not heels or matches. I work from home, so I don't own a ton of sensible shoes, just ridiculous and fun going out shoes and tons of flip flops. Bah.

[walterismydog]

OK no tights. I promise the picture makes them look much more garish than they look ON! LOL. But anyway, I won't wear them!

All the other fuss? booooooo. Everyone there wears tons of scarves and huge earrings and crazy shit all the time, so I thought I was headed in the right direction. APPARENTLY NOT. I fail at being a got-dang hipster.

[walterismydog]

Sept 28, 2012 16:45:06 GMT -5 frkls said:

btw, i love the boots

Thank you! Me too Which is why I am SO KEEN on wearing them. LOL I just need to figure out a whole new outfit.

[walterismydog]

Sept 28, 2012 16:44:05 GMT -5 kessieblue said:

You can mix brown and black if you tie it together well. Can you wear a brown belt around the middle? And then a turquoise necklace to tie in with the color on the boots. No spotted tights, though.

I like the belt idea, but I lost a ton of weight and I have no clothes. I was trying to make do with the little I do have that fits me. I am so bad at this.

[Deleted]

OMG, calm your tits, honey.

You're working as a hostess. No one gives a good goddamn about how fashionable your shoes are, trust me. Most of those heifers working are wearing safety shoes any damned way.

Wear the boots after work.

Not hard.

[walterismydog]

LOL I'm calm, I'm just being dramatic/slightly silly. And yes, everyone there cares about shoes, trust. Nobody wears those hideous safety shoes. This place is like walking into a damn hipster fashion show.