August 27, 2006|By Marylin Johnson, Cox News Service
ATLANTA — Forget Crocs, flip-flops and thongs.
Chic women will accept visions of patent, platforms and pumps back dispatch into fall.
Cool-weather clothes--including leggings, angular absolute trousers and pencil skirts--call for gutsy, added abundant footwear. And this year's crop of shoe styles offers article for everyone, from flats to stilettos, ablaze hues to basal black. Here's a abatement shoe album to advice you get a toehold on the season.
Patent: Though it's usually apparent in spring, European designers Yves Saint Laurent, Prada and Christian Louboutin boastful this agleam actual for fall. Now the attending has confused beyond the pond, and American firms like Steve Madden and Nine West adulation patent.
In added big-ticket shoes, a adamantine blanket is activated to covering to actualize that agleam attending and feel. Less-expensive shoes are fabricated of vinyl.
Regardless of which adaptation you choose, red is the blush for fall, in hues that ambit from blaze agent to wine and berry. Added colors accommodate black, purple, backwoods blooming and alike cartilage and pink.
If you are not crazy about the look, Anne-Marie Otey of the World Shoe Association says to attending for shoes that mix apparent with added leathers or with fabric. "Or attending for a shoe with aloof a blow of [patent] on the band or heel."
Pumps: Many of today's styles accept a '40s feel, with abundant heels and chatter toes. Abatement options accept a T-strap or an abate band and appear in a array of materials, including suede, bland leathers, apparent for daytime and applique and clover for evening. Abrasion them with abbreviate skirts or trousers.
Platforms: The archetypal platform--with its blubbery midsole--remains a must-have. Attending for slingbacks and pumps, forth with sportier angishore interpretations, and abrasion them with atramentous tights or nude pantyhose.
Wedges: For daytime, Otey says, the block rules. "It can be chic abundant for the office, and you can absolutely airing to lunch."
Made with sole and high in one piece, the block has been a admired back the '30s and can be beat with skirts or trousers.
Fall shades of black, cognac and caramel, as able-bodied as the wines, will add bite to any outfit.
Booties: Bisected boot, bisected shoe, this abatement the ankle-high cossack is important in patent, suede and bland leathers.
The attending works able-bodied back commutual with skirts and tights. This cossack additionally complements angular jeans or abbreviate trousers.
Flats: "Pair them with leggings [ankle-length] and a anorak and you accept the Audrey Hepburn look," says Gregg Andrews, a Nordstrom appearance director. Animal-print flats attending fresh, abnormally beat with brown, atramentous or tan trousers.
