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I also love the recommendation about buying yourself something nice if you experience a financial windfall (the Tiffany & Co gold mesh bracelet I allowed myself with my tax refund was very worth it), and on collecting coordinating sets of small items, such as wallet, lipstick case (but ha! I need a tote for my daily supply of lipsticks – the only makeup I carry through the day and wear and by the end of the day I probably have a mash up of 5 or 6 colours on my lips), glasses case and notebook etc. Your male colleague must have thought “sheez … women and shoes!” Yes! The country dressing section! Can you please do a post on an outfit you have compiled, based on her country dressing thoughts? That would be so much fun! Beige straw bags … very compelling … I liked the idea of a “cut velvet Roberta” bag so much that I hunted one down on Etsy and bought it and love it. So sorry to hear about your suede shoes and rain debacle. I also love her discussions of clothes for “the country.” But my favorites are the references to “harmonizing” - harmonizing beads with dresses, jacket linings with blouses, sweaters with jackets, etc. (We were three blocks from our office.) The Guide to Elegance is probably right about crocodile - it’s for day-time, not evening wear - but the best part of that advice is trying to envision what she means by “for sports ensembles.” My mind immediately goes to Suzanne Lenglen (real person) and Jordan Baker (not real person). He was a bit nonplussed when I told him I couldn’t leave the restaurant until the rain let up and that even then I would need him to hail a taxi for me. I went to lunch one day with a male colleague wearing the suede heels and as we were getting ready to leave, the skies opened and torrential, epic rain began. Justine, you raise an excellent point about the magnifying qualities of patent leather! I, too, have a pair of suede heels (ok: kitten heels), which I wear with work dresses that require a heel and look best with nude hosiery or no hosiery. Years have gone by and I’m yet to see any on my city streets! Is she correct, or just annoying? I don’t have any crocodile accesories, but have been on the lookout if I see any to ensure they are being worn correctly. Also her advice about crocodile accessories being sporty is worth contemplating and is sort of infuriating.

Your advice is good and I will now use my non elegant Longchamp patent leather bag, dang it, and be chic and happy about that. It really confuses and confounds me about the patent handbag advice, which I had taken on but am bothered by. I have that book too and was obsessed with it for some time. I like my peep toe kitten heel black patent shoes though, as the peep toe breaks up the expanse of shoe.

No light absorbing black hole matte suede effect. Whereas my patent shoes seem to amplify the foot’s length i.e. I think, as I have long, narrow feet, my theory is the matte and light absorbing effect of the black and sooty suede has a length reducing optical value. Lovely and highly entertaining reading Directrice! I am keen on suede heels for work though.

So, if you haven’t thought about patent leather much before, today’s the day. (3) Correctly or incorrectly, I believe that patent leather is very durable - far more resilient than suede (tender, timid suede - which can scarcely absorb a dampening look, let alone actual raindrops) and less susceptible to dulling than calf-skin leather. You may have noticed that my shoes are almost always the darkest part of my outfit I generally think that shoes should (with few exceptions) ground an outfit and black patent leather is very helpful in following this rule. So, when you are wearing dark socks, tights, or pants, your black patent leather shoes will be darker.

(2) Black patent leather has a color value - i.e., an intensity - that makes it unlikely to clash with or recede against black textiles. (1) Patent leather asserts itself at the edges of an outfit and thereby gives you definition - like a dark outline or a terminal punctuation mark: Outfit within! This outfit ends here!