The last time I bought proper office shoes, I wore them in on a Tuesday, took the 8:12 train, and by twenty past ten I had one of them off under my desk. Nobody noticed. I…
White shoes have a reputation problem that has nothing to do with design and everything to do with maintenance. A woman buys a bright pair in April, wears it through a wet May,…
Most closets have one shelf that gets used every single day and three that get used twice a year. The daily shelf is almost always occupied by a plain black pair with a rubber…
A polished black pump and a restaurant kitchen floor are a genuinely bad combination, and thousands of women find that out the hard way every year. The spill near the service…
Black leather has a reputation problem in shoe shops. It reads as sensible, and sensible is rarely offered as a compliment. Yet stand outside any railway station on a weekday…
Something odd happened to office footwear over the past few seasons. The pointed toe — the default shape for anything that had to look professional — started to look dated, and a…
Most shoe shopping advice assumes your foot is average. Width charts quietly disagree with that assumption: a “medium” last is built around a B or M width, and anyone who has ever…
Most of us own one pair we reach for without thinking: the flat-sole pair by the door that survives the school run, the grocery trip, and the odd dash for a train. That pair is…
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