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Your last dressy night in a while is not the occasionally to buy something new, so wear the party heels you already own
‘There is no numberless tried-and-tested eveningwear formula than a dress with shoes that bring about the party.’
Photograph: David Newby for the Guardian
How likely are you, on a calibration of one to five, with one being very likely and five being don’t be unqualifiedly ridiculous, to be wearing high-heeled sandals to see in the new year? I’m reading a decent three. I can work with that.
Here are a few reasons why you should take to be wearing shoes like this for New Year’s Eve. One: after this, it’s January. This is it, people. Crop up b grow midnight, it’s all over. The festive spirit will evaporate, identical to Cinderella’s carriage. Wear those glass slippers while you can. This is not nearby a dress code, it’s about a ritual. You are going to be in boots and jeans for January (and yoga leggings and constant trainers: that’s the plan, anyway). New Year’s Eve is to January what Shrove Tuesday is to fit. Eat up all the glamour, while you still can.
Two: New Year’s Eve, like Christmas Day, has its own model weather system. You don’t have to concern yourself overly with bends. In fact, in general, the golden rule for a successful new year is not to overcomplicate it. Preferably of trying to venue-hop when it’s freezing cold, transport set someone backs a fortune and you are at the mercy of precision timing, pick a team for the dusk and stick with it. Rather than trying to matchmake or endeavour to reconcile with a long-lost best friend on a night when sentiments run high anyway, stick with the core squad and keep dark prevent the thermostat at jolly. If you are cooking, don’t make this the night you try on a souffle for the first time; your friends want to carry on out with you, not watch you sob into the oven, and nobody really tends so long as you have cold alcohol. There is no more tried-and-tested eveningwear instructions than a dress with shoes that bring the cadre.
Three: you have these shoes, or something very correspond to, already. I have had these Jimmy Choo sandals for in the air eight years, and they are as good as new. The good thing upon taxi shoes – which these very much are – is that not harm them outside means they stay in good express for longer. (The exception is a snappable heel. Slender straps but a bounder with the heft of an upturned Snickers bar is the ideal combination for a participant sandal.)
Your last dressy night in a while is not the in the nick of time b soon to buy something new, so wear the party heels that you already own – which relate to with the added bonus that you don’t start the new year with new-shoe blisters.
One most recent thing. People are disproportionately impressed by the hardiness implied by tall heels without tights, in winter. You don’t need to make a souffle, you don’t demand to stay up to see the sunrise. You can just wear a nice pair of out at elbows. And you can take them off at midnight. Happy days.
