For a non-walking city, Los Angeles has some cool style when it comes to shoes. This fall, the range of trending options includes casual, cutesy and classically killer, all depending on where you're making the scene and what's the vibe. For example, while New Yorkers are all about their shiny silver shoes, the Angeleno is wearing suede knee-high boots in a half-Western, half-Boho chic style. She’s rocking ballet flats with thin socks. And finally, she’s building her fancy-lady ‘fits for evening around stiletto heels decorated with bows. Here, three shoe trends I think we’re going to see everywhere this fall.
3 Shoe Trends Every Woman in L.A. Is Wearing This Fall
It’s 70 degrees but we love our boots
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Published Sep 26, 2024
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1. Suede Knee-High Boots
Angelenos are masters of the wrong shoe theory—a casual flipflop with a suit, say, or a cold-weather shoe with shorts. The latest example of this tendency: suede knee-high boots. They include slouchy styles, a cowboy core boot profile and cool-girl 1970s zippered designs, all of which I've seen all over the city, from the dressed-to-impress Beverly Hills shopping crowd to the tapping-on-my-laptop creatives in Echo Park. What’s nice about suede as opposed to thick calf leather is that it’s softer on bare skin—so no tights or high socks are needed in warm weather.
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2. Ballet Flats with Socks
In a more walkable version of Taylor Swift’s Mary Janes with socks trend, I’ve been seeing ballet flats all over town with shorts, skirts and wide-leg jeans. In both strapped and classical ballet iterations, these shoes hit the SoCal sweet spot of way casual and also a bit boho. The socks are thin—sorry hiking fans, you’ll need to leave those thick athletic socks in the drawer—and the color combo of the sock-shoe matchup can be a conservative, monochrome pairing or a more raucous clash.
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3. High Heels with Bows
Bohemian? Comfy? All those dependable style watchwords for Angelenos go out the window when it comes to fine dining in Hollywood and Beverly Hills. When dusk falls, the ladies of L.A. climb up onto stiletto heels embellished with flowers, rhinestones and lately, bows. Big bows tying the shoes to the foot, smaller bows adorning straps, it’s all trending. Designer names including Louboutin and Amina Muaddi can run over a thousand dollars, but there are plenty of more affordable options I’ve found. Be sure to wear an above-the-knee skirt if you’re balancing atop these babies—you want to flaunt these confections.
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