Endnotes:
As the week’s review session on Neutrals progresses, my outfits are also getting increasingly lighter in hue. I think it’s easier to pair darker neutrals (brown, navy, black) together or to construct outfits entirely made of those. I’m more hesitant to put all whites, creams, or tans together and probably would not have thought of this look were it not for our color challenge. But I am happy with the result: the soft tans and whites make for the perfect summery outfit and are great for showing off a tan (bonus!).
For the indoor version, I’m taking along a cream light-weight cardi that keeps with the color scheme of the outfit and still allows the maroon pumps to act as the only pop of color here.
And while we’re on the subject of these shoes, I just want to mention how lucky a thrift find these were and how fortunate I was that they were slightly too small for A. (who spotted them) and just slightly too large for me. When compromising on shoe size, never compromise by getting a too small shoe! A slightly larger shoe (about half a size up) is a much easier fix. I simply got a pair of shoe insoles (the cheap kind that you find at Walgreens and are cut to size) and used them to fill in that extra space in my pumps.
A. clued me in to these as she uses them in a couple of her shoes. The advantage to these cut-to-size insoles is that you trim them to fit your entire shoe, thus taking up an even amount of space from everywhere. They also do not need to be glued into place (no sticky underside!), which also means that you can take them out during colder months when you may wear those same shoes with thick sweater tights. I’ve had my share of traitorous too-tight shoes, but no more! Now I err on the slightly larger size when needed and use this handy trick rather than suffer scrunched-in toes and painful blisters. Hope this trick helps you too, if you weren’t already aware of it! S.
