Greetings from Paris, ladies! I arrived for fashion week, somewhat sleepily, yesterday morning and hit the ground running--or should I say ambled as quickly as my high heeled booties would let me. A few short hours after landing I found myself sitting at the Christian Dior show, watching flirty equestrian-inspired outfits shimmy down the runway--and was suddenly jolted wide awake. As you STFers know, caffeine is nothing compared to some high octane fashion. Drink it up, after the jump.
The thigh-high boots / cocktail dress combos at Dior really caught my attention, partially because I'd been circling the over-the-knee boot trend--but not diving in--for some time. Blake Lively and our own, always-chic Tracey found a way to make 'em work, making me love them (the boots and the gals) even more.
However, I'd never thought of going, well, glam with them before, until I saw the evening gown / tall boot combos at Dior, which I immediately gave a big thumbs up. (In my head that is. Whipping out the double digits at a runway show would be a level 11 fashion faux pas, though still not quite as bad as going commando in the front row.)
Anyway, back to the boots. I love that the boots make a fancy party go-er look a little more rugged--like the gal in question is ready for something a little bit more adventurous than indulging in a second round of canapes.
Of course, there's a fine line between looking like you're headed for a Marie Antoinette-esque midnight field trip or about to embark on a Pretty Woman kind of evening when you wear over-the-knee boots, and I think the trick is in the color and cut of the stuff you wear with 'em. For example, those pastel and ruffly Dior numbers don't look R-rated, do they? Ditto for the ruched and draped cocktail dresses at Vionnet:
Two looks from the Vionnet Fall 2010 show. For more, log on to Style.com
Since my calendar isn't exactly chock a block full of proms, galas and good ol' fashioned dinner dances (remember those?) I'm not running out to buy a version of this outfit any time soon, but like brainstorming baby names, picking out a dream wedding dress, and wondering what went wrong in The Situation's childhood, it's just one of those fun to think about in the mornings while waiting for the coffee to kick in.
What say you, lovely ladies? Are these a DO or a DON'T? What kind of shoes would you pair with these dresses instead? On another note, got any good "cure" for jetlag?
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