In the most formal settings, your shoes should be darker than your pants
Wear white shoes with a brown dress
Black was, of course, the colour of mourning and familiar as day-wear for the many widows of France following the slaughter of the First World War and the recent Spanish flu pandemic. While other designers were turning to fancy, colorful clothes as an antidote to all this gloom, Chanel steered into it, he wrote, producing little black dresses whose somewhat severe and simple lines were off-set by her signature accessoriesa rope of large fake pearls, a fabric camellia or a plain cloche hat. Like Fords motorcars, the LBD has had many iconic incarnations since
It's a bit like having an eighteenth-century tool belt. While the blue of Belles dress was preordained, it was still a factor in filming, and steps were taken to ensure viewers took note of the hue
I just happened to have this one from last year, and I think its a nice pop against the navy