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What To Wear With Shorter Pants

A loyal reader inquires as to what kind of shoesies we should wear with the shorter pants that are popular in the spring and summer.

A nice sandal with pedicured toes and SOFT, CLEAN HEELS would be nice. On your feet, I mean, not just the shoe. It’s only April and we’re already getting into some dire Sandal Situations, about which more later.

A dressy flat is also nice.

capris
If you’re just around the office, a chunky casual sandal is fine, but pair it with a more polished top than just a tee-shirt. It’s obviously a very “casual Friday” kind of look, and not something you would ever wear on a Sunday or to an evening church event.

PeaceBang is not a big fan of the shorter pant, as it is a distinctly unflattering style — no one needs to be cut off at the calf like that — but she understands that some of you manage to look quite cute in your little cotton pants and will persist, therefore, in wearing them. Some of us will not look cute in them, but will wear them anyway because they’re comfortable, and PeaceBang herself is among this group. Especially in the hot summer which MAY COME SOMEDAY BUT YOU’D NEVER KNOW IT SINCE IT’S STILL FREEZING RAIN OUT!

What not to wear with the shorter capri-type pants are :
sneakers of any kind
Crocs
flip-flops of any kind
heavy pumps
boots, unless you’re Sienna Miller

Please, please, please do not wear capris in bright colors or in frog or palm tree prints. PeaceBang’s heart couldn’t take it.

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"HI, I’m Really A Sneaker"


privo crush
Originally uploaded by Peacebang.

Uh-oh, ya’ll, it’s BLACK FLATS SHOE WARS!

But seriously, we all know how hard it is to find a suitable black flat shoe, so some of you are writing in with your recommendations. The most recent pitch was rejected by many of you for being too expensive and cutesy, and now I must reject these as being too much the wolf in sheep’s clothing known as “Hi, I’m a Sneaker dressed up like a shoe.”

Hi, Sneaker. You ain’t fooling me. I know a sneaker when I see one, and though I would love you for the office and my day off, you would not be seeing the inside of my sanctuary, no way, no how.

That goes for you, too, Privo Colada,

privo colada

You’re adorable as can be, and I might take you home, but you’re not to be worn with skirts or at serious professional appearances.

And you, too, Privo Comice, even in black. You can’t fool me. I know a sneaker cut like a real shoe when I see one:

privo comice pear

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A Reader Recommends Tory Burch Shoes

Dear ladies,

Do you have a penchant for cunning ballerina flats? If so, read on.

Reader K. recommends these shoes by Tory Burch. She says they look just as brilliant with jeans as they do with vestments, but when PeaceBang saw the price she fell backwards off her chair and had to be helped back up by the cat, who said “Wow, you must have a head injury, because I’m a cat and I can’t talk.”

Here are the darling ballerina flats, not PeaceBang’s personal style or budget range, but may be just what you’re looking for:

http://www.toryburch.com/catalog_detail.aspx?cid=467&id=12662

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She Gave Her Ordination The Boot


ordination boot
Originally uploaded by Peacebang.

Remember when D. wrote in and told us about how she broke her ankle right before her ordination and was so upset that she wouldn’t be able to wear fabulous shoes? And then she decorated her little ankle boot with rhinestones?

http://beautytipsforministers.blogspot.com/2007/02/she-glued-rhinestones-to-her.html

Well, here’s the photo. And it’s just a wonderful shot.

Blessings to the Rev. D. and her intrepid sense of humor and flair!

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She Glued Rhinestones To Her Orthopedic Boot…

… bless her fabulous little heart!!

This from a fellow lover of shoes:

Hello PeaceBang,

Just wanted to tell you about my experience of the ministry of shoes. I like no, love shoes and they are always a topic of conversation with my parishioners on a Sunday morning. They comment on the height of the heel-high and the pointyness of the toes-very. When I broke my toe a week before my ordination, they all lamented as to what I would wear-I hot glued rhinestones to my orthopedic boot and they loved it. Just wanted you to know that I have embraced my shoeness and am not the least embarrassed by it, it just lets me know that my congregation loves me-shoes and all.

Thanks. I knew you’d understand.
D.

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Dear D,
Indeed, I do understand. When I broke both of my ankles at the same time in 2000, one of the things that aged me even worse than the pain was the footwear. I couldn’t step into a cute shoe or a heel for six months. Come to think of it, I wasn’t wearing heels back then. I was living in Maryland and fairly new in the ministry and still reeling from the fact that having a “Rev.” before my name seemed to have totally cancelled my attractiveness quotient in the eyes of every man I met. I felt like a frump and I’m afraid I was very much dressing the part.

When I moved back to Massachusetts to be the minister at one of the prettiest churches I have ever seen (the interior of our sanctuary is mauve pink!! How flattering to a girl’s complexion!!) , I got some mojo back. My new surroundings were so pritty, I wanted to be pritty! My friend Nathan took me shopping for clothes my second summer here and when he noodged me to buy some heels and I replied that I was too plump to totter around on them, he put his hand on his hip and said, “Honey, if I can wear them, you can wear them!” Nathan, you have to know, is well over 6″ tall and is not a slim boy. I’ve never seen him in drag, but I just know that he’s utterly fabulous. I bought a pair of
9 West pumps that day and have never looked back.

Thanks for writing, sugarpie. Take good care of those tootsies.

Kiss of peace,
PeaceBang