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Flipping through our March issue, I’m sure you spotted a couple of our models wearing the latest bare leg styling technique: socks with heels. Yeap, socks, stretched half way up the calf paired with pumps, platforms, open-toed shoes… you name it! Once considered a god-awful, tourist-in-action fashion faux pas, this spring it’s poised to be the hottest new craze. Models on the spring Burberry runway sported nude platform heels with nude socks and right here on Canadian soil, models at Joe Fresh Style strutted in clogs paired with crisp white knee-highs–a look straight out of a retro ’50s movie. The nude-on-nude vibe is the easiest to wear—it looks like a pair of booties from afar—but to me, this styling technique is a very slippery slope.

So I gotta know: will you sport this cool, unexpected look when the snow starts to melt? Or are you going to steer clear of this trend and leave it in the hands (erm, feet) of the clueless tourist?

Photo: Geneviève Charbonneau

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It may be nearly the end of November, but I’m in denial of the fact that snow should technically be on the ground and winter’s icy grip is reaching out for us—hey, up until last week it has been upwards of 15C in Toronto. To underline my defiance, today I breezed into the office is cropped pants and peep-toe pumps. Not the brightest thing I have ever done because the LOULOU office felt like a meat locker. Other than shoving a space heater under my desk and pointing it straight on my feet (which I don’t think is allowed in my cubicle), I just have to grin and bare my dim-witted fashion choice. What I wouldn’t have given to slide these chunky sweater-knit socks on my tootsies! In the name of fashion, I may just have to start stockpiling thick, knit socks under my desk along with my ever-growing pile of shoes.

Old Navy, Sweater-knit slipper socks, $12.50 USD

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