Girls Fashion Lifestyle

High heeled shoes and trousers aren’t often allied with each other. The reasons behind this are that heels are known for the feminine and elegant qualities and therefore usually combined with dresses or skirts. Trousers on the other hand are traditionally and historically associated with men and male attributes.

This belief is, however, drastically changing with women not only wearing trousers regularly in both a casual setting and the work environment, but also combining these different styles of trousers with their high heeled shoes. There are, however, some general key considerations to decide on before combining heels and trousers with an event or occasion.

When pairing heels with pants, your main consideration is the length of the trousers. The bottom of your pants, whether they’re jeans or work trousers, shouldn’t be grazing the floor, as this can ruin the hemline of your favourite pair of trousers. Ideally, the hemline of your pants should fall somewhere between the top of the heel of your shoes and midway down the heel, while the trouser leg should hang straight instead of bunching up around the top of your foot. This will happen if the trousers are too long. Also, when your pants gather, they’ll make your legs look shorter, taking away from the lean silhouette you’ll get from tailored pants with heels.

When mixing any type of jeans or trousers with heels, it’s important to appropriately think out the cut, colour, style and length of the trousers, as mentioned above, along with the colour, height and style of the shoe.

To help you get the idea of creating a successful trouser, high heel and event combination, here are some tips on what works well in which scenario:

For work at the office, it is best to combine tailored trousers with a modest heel. The heel looks stylish and elegant, but is modest to show that you mean business and can practically combine fashion with work. An extreme heel or bold style of shoe looks foreign in a work environment and reflects that you aren’t taking the job seriously and are more concerned with your outfit.

Skinny jeans with high platforms are ideal for a night out on the town or a first date, as they represent a low-key, high-fashion statement. This combination can also lengthen the legs and improve posture.

Casual, cropped pants for those warmer spring and summer days can also be combined with heels. Cropped pants have hemlines that fall as high as the knee or as low as the mid-calf. These types of pants are more versatile to wear with heels than ankle-length capris, which tend to make legs look short and thick no matter what you wear with them. To improve the class of cropped pants wear girly, heeled shoes. Heels with pointed toes or peep-toes look great with cropped pants. For short women who want to wear flats with cropped pants, a better option are kitten heels. They’ll appear a bit taller and more slender without having to navigate on stilettos all day.

This simple guide should get the creativity of your inner fashionista flowing. Have fun combining.

There are so many women’s shoes to choose from both on the high street and online. So it should be easy to pick the perfect pair. Except we all know that a pair of shoes can make or break an outfit. To ensure that we look stylish this party season what shoes should we be looking for? Here are the top three styles of party shoes.

Women’s Shoes

Platforms

Platforms have been on our radar and our feet for the past five years (this time around anyway), and they are showing no signs of disappearing anytime soon. If you’ve already bought into this trend many times over, the best way to update your look is to opt for colour-blocking. A new season trend, colour-blocking platforms are available in a wide range of contrasting colours including monochrome and the more adventurous red, purple and blue. The latter are great if you are looking for distinctive, eye catching women’s shoes. And to try a new platform style, swap stiletto high heels for the popular on-trend block heels.

Wedges

Wedges are a great addition to any party wardrobe as if you pick the right ones they literally go with everything! Not to mention that they are much comfier and easier to walk in than high heeled stilettos and many other women’s shoes! The most versatile wedges are black suede platforms, in either a sandal or shoe boot. These look equally as great with skinny jeans and a t-shirt as they do with a sexy party dress. If you’re a bit more outgoing opt for a pair in a vibrant colour such as red or purple.

Block Heeled Ankle Boots

As previously mentioned the block heel is on-trend this season, and the perfect way to nail this trend is with an ankle boot. With the inevitably cold winter weather, block heeled ankle boots are a great addition to any little party dresses.  If you’re petite, team with opaque black tights to create the illusion of long slim legs. The block heeled ankle boot also works well with skinny jeans for those after work drinks and bare legs when the weather warms up!