This is mostly for the women because I suspect that most guys don’t care but anyone can answer. The more the merrier. And the question is…
Would you wear brown shoes with black slacks? And if your answer is yes, what color socks would you wear?
Well come on… say something. Anything. [chirp chirp chirp..]
March 24th, 2011 - 7:46 am
I don’t have brown shoes or black slacks. I don’t guess that I would.
March 24th, 2011 - 8:07 am
I’d wear brown Birkenstocks with casual black slacks, and maybe a winey-brown color of dress shoes with black slacks. “Suntan” colored stockings with the dress shoes (or whatever psuedo-flesh color stockings I had). With casual slacks and Birkies, either no socks or some kind of handknit wool socks that match my shirt, if it’s wintertime.
March 24th, 2011 - 9:07 am
Only if I wore a brown shirt. I actually do wear black pants and a brown shirt to work a lot of the time. But I wear black Converse with them, so it would be white socks.
But for “dressing up”, I’d pair the brown shoes with brown socks. Oh! or plaid!
March 24th, 2011 - 10:35 am
I’ll wear black shoes with brown slacks (which describes today’s wardrobe, in fact), but not the other way around.
Socks, incidentally, are tan.
March 24th, 2011 - 11:31 am
“black shoes with brown slacks … but not the other way around”
That’s the way I feel about it but I’m not sure why. It just feels right. Of course that’s not to say I would never commit a fashion sin.
March 24th, 2011 - 12:36 pm
I forgot about the socks question. I of course will grab the first two socks that are clean, regardless of color or whether they match. Life’s too short to spend time finding a match for a sock. Nobody ever notices anyway.
March 24th, 2011 - 2:58 pm
“Nobody ever notices anyway”
They did too notice when you where laying on the gurney in the E. R.
March 24th, 2011 - 6:40 pm
Hm. I believe you are right. Black shoes with brown pants is okay. Vice versa is not. Of course, I kind of think black shoes are okay with anything. As to socks… I’d wear black socks with either combo – only black socks with brown shoes though. Unless I had some really awesome socks that had at least one color the same as my shirt.
March 25th, 2011 - 6:46 am
Sometimes I think I might be excessively concerned about being properly color coordinated, for example, even when I’m at home and there’s no one to see me I feel a bit uncomfortable if the color of my ragged old t-shirt doesn’t go with the color of my baggy sweatpants. And I might be the only person in America who spends more than two seconds thinking about what to wear to Wal-mart. And I firmly believe in and practice the “no white before Easter or after Labor Day” rule.
On the other hand, there are all kinds of fashion “rules” that I do break and I sometimes wear colors that I know don’t look good on me. Yellow makes me look like Big Bird’s fatter cousin but I wear it anyway because I like yellow. I think I have worn brown shoes with black pants, even though it felt wrong, and I almost did again yesterday but then I changed my mind about what I was going to wear because the weather didn’t warm up as much as I expected.
March 25th, 2011 - 12:47 pm
Well, considering I’ve become conditioned to wearing suits a lot, I’d stick with the black on black approach. It gets me through just about all the wardrobe conundrums I have. But, I’ve also only adhered to one gender’s way of dressing myself, so I suppose you can take that for what it’s worth…
March 26th, 2011 - 12:26 am
I purposely do not own brown shoes (or a brown belt, for that matter) specifically to avoid this problem.