Orange you glad?
One way you can tell the real world from the dream world is that in the dream world you do things like this:
I dreamed that I was desperately searching for a pair of orange dress shoes. While I was searching I found a very nice pair of soft casual shoes that I wish really did exist but no orange dress shoes. I searched lots of stores, more stores than actually exist in my area but no orange dress shoes. I also started thinking about an orange purse — the purse must match the shoes, after all — and just generally getting a bit angsty about the whole thing. I’m not sure what I was getting dressed up for that required orange shoes.
I missed the Citrus Festival myself. However, I take “go thou and do likewise” very seriously sometimes:
I didn’t think of Endless.com until I woke up but I had to look and, sure enough, when you search for orange women’s shoes you get 520 results including some that could be considered “dress shoes.” Not all of them are what I would call orange. Some are actually tan and some are a peachy pink but there are a lot that are actually orange — bright orange.
So I betook myself to Zappos.com, gathered about 490 results, and there’s a lot of coral and scarlet and mango and some other colors you could take for pomegranate, but not a whole lot of #FFA500 orange, reminding me of my earlier search for green shoes, which turned up a lot of samples that were greenish without being all that green.
Then there was this, not so dressy but otherwise meeting the basic criteria:
This is “Ricky” by Bouquets, a shortish (2¼ inches high) wedge, simulated leather contrasting with presumably genuine burlap, at the $60 price point. It’s also available in black, yellow and green(ish). Probably insubstantial, but then so are our dreams, mostly.
fillyjonk »
10 July 2009 · 10:14 am
They’re cute, but I have a standing rule that shoes have to match at least four outfits I own, and they sadly fail on that count.
CGHill »
10 July 2009 · 10:23 am
I assume buying more outfits would be out of the question.
fillyjonk »
10 July 2009 · 10:31 am
Well, I look like hell in orange. I look good in a number of colors, but orange ain’t one of them.
CGHill »
10 July 2009 · 10:49 am
I do marginally better. (In fact, today I’m wearing a shirt almost exactly the color of those shoes.) I still wouldn’t call it “good,” though.
sya »
10 July 2009 · 11:41 am
Lucid dreaming is the way to go. That way, you can get whatever shoes you want, in your subconscious anyway.
Lynn »
10 July 2009 · 12:17 pm
You could wear orange shoes if your outfit had only touch of orange in it. Those particular shoes aren’t really my style – either my actual style or my “wish it was my style”
CGHill »
10 July 2009 · 12:24 pm
I looked at that BCBGirls sandal and thought “Maybe it’s a tad loud for Lynn.” My apologies.
Lynn »
10 July 2009 · 3:32 pm
Oh, I’m definitely loud; (That is, I’m not afraid of “loud” colors) what I am not is graceful. I have a fear of embarrassing myself if I wear high heels.
CGHill »
10 July 2009 · 3:41 pm
Actually, it wasn’t the color so much as it was the industrial-strength studs liberally applied to the strappage.
Lisa Paul »
10 July 2009 · 4:21 pm
One fashionista once observed that orange is a hard color to wear: “In general, if you look good in orange, you’ll look even better in another color.”
Lynn »
10 July 2009 · 4:46 pm
For some reason I’m attracted to the studs. I’d probably wear them with something most people would say they don’t go with at all, something very conservative in style but possibly brightly colored.
Violins and Starships »
10 July 2009 · 10:18 pm
Guaranteed Link…
A post about shoes almost always gets a link from Dustbury. Notice, however, who got all the comments….
Duyen Ky »
11 July 2009 · 5:14 am
Ick! Nothing looks good in orange. No living creature, that is. Well, except for some cats.
Orange should be reserved for road-hazard cones by federal law.
Lynn »
12 July 2009 · 3:08 pm
I’m wearing orange today. Well, maybe a bit more yellow than orange. It’s a yellow top with oranges and orange slices and tiny green leaves on it. It’s one of my favorites and while don’t think I look great in anything, this doesn’t look bad at all.