Fashion Faux Pas?? Under a Dress??! Oops

It's Winter, no open toed shoes of any sort except may be to a really nice indoor Christmas party or New Years Eve thing. Then it's bare legs or toe less tights from the dance studio store.

Wouldn't wear sheer but drk black tights looks very chic: )

Jen

I vote tights! (And since it's a peep toe, I think it would be OK.)

it's funny you bring this up because I've been noticing how many women DONT wear hose anymore when they should be. Last week in starbucks I saw a pretty, well-dressed woman obviously on her way to work. She was wearing a black above-the-knee skirt, it's COLD outside and yet her legs were bare. I remember thinking how a pair of very sheer pale hose would have increased her sophistication level by leaps and bounds.

The rule of thumb about open toed shoes I think is pretty simple. Open, strappy sandals are best with bare feet and best kept for warmer seasons. Peep-toed shoes can go either way - I think it depends on how much of your toes are showing. As long as it's just a little bit of toe, then wearing coordinating hosiery may not be too bad. If it's a really open toe - then I don't think it looks right.

I think wearing mules depends on the style and season. I have a pair of casual mules that look really cute with dark tights.

You're right not to go barelegged on a December evening... HOWEVER, the solution is NOT to wear stocking with an open toed shoe!!! Get a pair of closed toed pumps. If you don't have any, you need some, so treat yourself.

Yah-pretty much a faux pas. The only time I would be kind of ok with it is if the shoe was a peep toe pump. Never with a strappy shoe. And make sure there is no toe seam showing.

Can you wear tights? Much more on trend then hose are.

tights, or the new fashion tights or hose with the neat embroidery designs is okay, but not just plain black or nude hose, nope.

I'm so out of it. Where I grew up the only time someone wore stockings was for sex and funerals and ballet. (FL, LA, CA, trop Islands in the pacific and atlantic and other hot climates where the rule is bare legs). Living in a cold climate is still relatively new to me. If this faux pas is so well known, I'd strongly suspect she was another hot house transplant. I know in Miami and Panama New Orleans we could always spot the snowbirds and holiday types by their nylons with their dresses. We used to say they were "trolling for muggers".

I'm not loving it. Black nylons and black shoes with open toe..... Little too matchy matchy for me. I find a different color nylon or a closed shoe.

Tights will work! Completely different than hose.

Nylons aren't going to keep you warm. Tights would help, though.

But NO not with any kind of open toed shoe. If it's so cold that you need to wear tights, it's cold enough to completely cover your feet.

Sorry, fashion says "suffer." : )

Do not do opened toe and tights thing - think of how socks look with sandals

LOL I, too, have shuddered at the sheer-toed-hosiery-with-open-toed-shoes idea in years past... but now, hmmmm....

I think it MAY be passable if, as you said, the shoes are like a peep-toe, not a strappy shoe... and black on black. Or flesh colored on other colored shoes.

I'm no Stacey London or Clinton Kelly, but that's my $ .02.

Sorry ladies but hose are out of style.. Grandmas wear hose..
If it is winter and you want to cover your legs.. wear closed toes shoes with tights..
Or extremely sheer panty hose.. No hose with opened toed shoes.. that went out at the end of the eighties with fried mall hair..

never never ever wear tights or hose with open toe shoes.... EVER! Fish nets in nude maybe...
Thanks