Fall is here! Fall is here! Well, I mean fall isn’t HERE –although it was a brisk 95 yesterday instead of 107– but it will be fall someday, and that someday will be here soon…ish, and thank be to God and all the heavenly host because I am bored unto 80 proof tears of everything in my closet.
The big color story I’m feeling (GOD I feel like such a jerk for saying that! “Color story I’m feeling” geeze, this is why fashion people should be drowned at birth) is this chilly slate/petrol blue with lots of gray in it.
I just want to coat myself in it from head to toe and feel sophisticated and urbane and sliiiightly jaded in a way that sort of harkens to the cold strength of 80’s and early 90’s European fashion without being too much of a pastiche.
Here are some of my favorites:
Kate Spade Women’s Kamille Pump. This color is heaven in satin.
FLY London Women’s Lark Mary Jane Pump. Kind of funky and Old World cobbler-y. Fun for running around in a pair of jeans and still having a bit of quirky style.
Seychelles Women’s Kiss At Midnight Mary Jane Pump. I love a good solid MJ for fall and this seems fresher than those boring burgundies everywhere. GOD I’m tired of burgundy and black patent leather.
Martinez Valero Women’s Zoie Pump. The perfect New Year’s Eve shoe, lighter but still cold.
Samanta Women’s Viv Pump. Available up to a size 14, it’s surprisingly wearable thanks to the solid banana heel (which still looks killer) boxy toe and hidden platform.
ZiGiny Women’s Preppy Pump. Fab fish-skin midheel with a nice broad toe box. It’s a neutral, but better.
This is actually one of my favorite decorating colors, especially towards the grayer end of the spectrum. I would LOVE to paint my bedroom the color of those fishskins, to go with my new pewter-colored sheets. And I agree, I’m sick and tired of brown/gold/burgundy falls… this is great.
Comment by KESW — August 26, 2010 @ 4:46 pm
Im in love with that Mary Jane ! I just may have to get myself a pair-a-dem-dar ! lol . I also like the fish skin hills that you have on there last ! Those are a good height for chasing around kids and not breaking my neck !
Comment by Dawn — August 26, 2010 @ 4:47 pm
I have a silk sheath dress in the closet in that exact color (a tad more grey but still spot on) which I bought several years ago and put away. .. and which I will pull out again. Far more interesting and sophisticated than baby blue or teal or turquoise. Yep..pull that dress to the front.
Comment by Toby Wollin — August 26, 2010 @ 8:47 pm
Okay, dumb question. How do you wear mary janes with jeans? Do you wear socks with them? Bare feet? Knee-highs?
Comment by Alanna — August 27, 2010 @ 2:58 am
Oh, how I want work-suitable shoes the color of the Zoie pumps. I am so addicted to that shade of blue. I suppose it’s better than being addicted to, say, satin booty shorts, but still.
Comment by Chicklet — August 27, 2010 @ 10:25 am
Oh Em Gee: The blue of that first pair is the only color that knocks me off the Green is My Color bandwagon.
Comment by Friv — August 28, 2010 @ 1:34 am
the colors are AMAZING!! i LOVE the Zigny and Samanta pumps the most, so lush.
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Comment by vonnie — August 29, 2010 @ 8:58 pm
Full disclosure: I work at a comfort shoe store.
When we started getting in a lot of navy and gray shoes this fall I knew that fall was going to be charcoal, navy and other blue-grays. My customers still look at me like I’m insane when I say it though just as they did when I had to say, “I’m sorry, but we don’t have any white sandals this season.”
If *we* get it, you know its in mainstream style for sure.
Comment by Sara A. — August 30, 2010 @ 8:26 pm
I think you’ve started a trend. That darling Seychelles Mary Jane is only available in 7.5 in the teal. *sigh*
Comment by Fabrisse — September 3, 2010 @ 11:10 pm