Speaker 1: Welcome to Before Breakfast, a production of iHeartRadio. Good Morning,
Speaker 1: This is Laura. Welcome to the Before Breakfast podcast. Today's
Speaker 1: tip is that an outfit includes your shoes. Most likely,
Speaker 1: if you are out in the world, you are wearing shoes,
Speaker 1: so it's best to shop and put outfits together with
Speaker 1: that in mind. In general, if a detail is necessary,
Speaker 1: it's best to plan for it from the get go.
Speaker 1: Now I realize that my more fashionable listeners are probably
Speaker 1: wondering why the first part of this is even a tip.
Speaker 1: Of course, an outfit includes shoes and accessories and so forth,
Speaker 1: but perhaps at least a few people are more like me.
Speaker 1: None of this feels natural. So I had a problem
Speaker 1: this spring when the weather got warmer and I was
Speaker 1: looking to wear my summer flats or sandals, basically shoes
Speaker 1: without warm wool socks. But most of my jeans were
Speaker 1: the length for wearing with boots. As a not terribly
Speaker 1: fashionable person, I just kept wearing these longer jeans with
Speaker 1: my flats and just kind of stomping around on the
Speaker 1: bottom of the pants all the time, feeling not terribly
Speaker 1: put together. Fortunately, as mentioned in an episode earlier this week,
Speaker 1: I went shopping with a professional stylist, and she picked
Speaker 1: out a number of crapped jeans that are the right
Speaker 1: length for wearing with the shoes I have. Everything feels
Speaker 1: a lot more stylish. I mean, as much as it
Speaker 1: can with the material we are working with. The whole
Speaker 1: experience was a reminder to me that shoes are part
Speaker 1: of an outfit. We often buy pants and shirts and
Speaker 1: shoes in separate stores, but we wear all of these
Speaker 1: things at the same time. If we are out and
Speaker 1: about in the world, people are seeing our shoes just
Speaker 1: as they are seeing everything else. That means that it
Speaker 1: is worth thinking about shoes when you purchase, say a
Speaker 1: pair of pants, what shoes do you intend to wear
Speaker 1: those pants with? If it is a pair of healed boots,
Speaker 1: then you'll need the pants in a different length then
Speaker 1: if you plan to wear them with flat shoes. This
Speaker 1: is true for other things too. If it is winter
Speaker 1: and you live somewhere cold, you are going to be
Speaker 1: wearing a coat a lot of the time. So does
Speaker 1: your coat work with the clothes and shoes you have.
Speaker 1: It's kind of silly to think of it as an afterthought,
Speaker 1: because it really isn't. This is all true metaphorically as well.
Speaker 1: Certain details are always part of the hole, so don't
Speaker 1: think of them as afterthoughts. I know I have been
Speaker 1: guilty of this with my book covers. Now no one
Speaker 1: is reading my books without a cover, so I should
Speaker 1: be thinking of cover concepts as soon as I come
Speaker 1: up with a book idea. I've always thought it was
Speaker 1: a little unfair that writers tend not to get to
Speaker 1: choose their headlines and magazines and newspapers. As the headline
Speaker 1: becomes what everyone uses to reference the story, it would
Speaker 1: be best to know it from the beginning. Getting groceries
Speaker 1: involves the time it takes to put them away at home.
Speaker 1: This is not some surprise element to the grocery shopping
Speaker 1: process that no one could have anticipated. And of course,
Speaker 1: unless you are at the beach, you are probably not
Speaker 1: going to be barefoot out and about in the world,
Speaker 1: so keep shoes in mind while shopping or figuring out
Speaker 1: what to wear. Everything will feel much more cohesive in
Speaker 1: the meantime. This is Laura. Thanks for listening, and here's
Speaker 1: to making the most of our time. Thanks for listening
Speaker 1: to before breakfast. If you've got questions, ideas, or feedback,
Speaker 1: you can reach me at Laura at Laura vandercam dot com.
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