Is there a pair of shoes, no matter how strong a woman you are, can touch the softest part of your heart, wear it, as if walking in the spring wind, so that you naturally elegant fresh up, it is - Mary Jane shoes, first because of the comic heroine Mary Jane and out of the screen, slowly become a fashion girl's heart.
By the 1920s, the fashionable Flapper girls in Europe and the United States were wearing short hair, wearing a pair of Mary Jane shoes, and going to the Charleston dance to listen to their favorite jazz.
In the film and television works set in that era can often see the figure of Mary Jane shoes, at that time Mary Jane was the favorite shoe of aristocratic women.
The traditional Mary Jane shoes are flat, round toed, with a shoe trip, and have the playful cute of a girl. After more than 100 years of popularity, today's Mary Jane shoes have been improved by countless designers, heels from flat to thick, toe from round to pointed, materials from velvet to patent leather, style changes are very rich, and the pattern of tying is also more than dazzling.
Almost every year in Miu Miu, Gucci, Dior shows can see several youthful Mary Jane.
When it comes to Mary Jane shoes, you have to talk about Chanel. Chanel Mary Jane shoes play the elegant temperament to the extreme, almond head, high heels, simple and durable, is most people's ideal Mary Jane shoes look.
The Row, SAINT LAURENT, Celine and other brands popular with mature women are thinking about how to interpret it to better meet the needs of modern mature women.
At Fendi's Fall/Winter 2022 menswear show, male models also wore Mary Jane shoes with stockings.
What kind of Mary Jane is most fashionable?
Before we begin to introduce the style of Mary Jane shoes, Xiaobian would like to tell you that not everyone is suitable for wearing Mary Jane shoes. If you are a girl with broad instep, thick ankles and thick calves, Mary Jane may not be for you. The trip on the Mary Jane shoe is the essence, and the elegant foot shape is more suitable for this shoe with a split foot decoration.
On this basis, it is also necessary to carefully select Mary Jane's shoes in order to avoid wearing Mary Jane out of the old and rustic feeling of primary school performance shoes.
The first is the material. In the case of uncertainty, it is recommended that you give up suede material Mary Jane shoes, prefered patent leather. Patent leather can add a lot of color to basic Mary Jane shoes, and will make Mary Jane shoes a little more youthful.
In general, the finer the trip, the better the match. In contrast, the wide shoe trip tests the foot and leg shape more than the thin shoe trip. If you want to enhance the fashion of Mary Jane shoes, you can choose a design buckle on the basis of the thin shoe trip, which can make Mary Jane shoes more delicate.
The choice of heel height is more diverse, in addition to the Mary Jane shoes that are too flat style are easy to wear fat feet, heel height is almost no taboo. The height of 3 to 6cm is more suitable for daily use, and you can also wear it on formal occasions if the style is chosen well. Many celebrities have worn it on red carpets and at big events.
Finally, there is the choice of toe shape. Xiaobian suggests that you can choose according to your usual dress style. The daily simple leisure items are more recommended to choose a square with a round almond head. Almond head Mary Jane shoes have a stronger "intellectual feel", will make the wearer look like a bookish.
Those who like almond head Mary Jane can take a look at Carel, the old French brand that specializes in Mary Jane shoes. Our Miss Chung, Alexa Chung, wears it all year round. Carel's more classic Mary Jane models include the Kina and Twiggy. Salvatore Ferragamo's Audrey shoes are also very sophisticated, and were designed specifically for Audrey Hepburn, who loved to wear Mary Jane.
The Office Lady needs to match the pointy end of the suit shirt to make it look better. The pointed tip will show a little more skin, which can make the feet more slender and elegant.
If you prefer a spice girl style, subculture style, and the ability to wear good, you can choose a thick bottom round head or square head Mary Jane. Sister A has been wearing a pair of Mary Jane with thick bottom and square head with all kinds of miniskirts lately.
Those chunky Mary Jane shoes on Lady A's feet are really hot this year. Thick bottom + thick heel is very in line with the avant-garde and bold characteristics of generation Z girls, so it is particularly popular with millennium Spice girls. When matching, you need to wear a sense of lightness, you can match some more silhouette dresses, and accessories should be extra fashionable.
For a similar look, check out French brand Nodaleto. Nodaleto's Mary Jane not only retains a retro feel, but the design is also very vivid, with salt and sweet, full of possibilities.
Mary Jane looks even better this way
As a pair of women's style is more obvious and distinctive shoes, more richness and conflict than the basic footwear, easier to highlight the stylish style, but also have unexpected matching.
Mary Jane shoes and various dresses are a perfect match: easy to wear with One Piece, simple and atmospheric; Put on a mini skirt and Mary Jane shoes, and you will feel a lively girly feeling; Wear your coat as a skirt, showing off your slim legs and stepping on a pair of Mary Janes for a sexy yet elegant look. On the basis of these can also add berets, scarves and belts, the whole is more modern.
Dresses and Mary Jens can always look a little thin at the beginning of spring, especially when wearing this year's hot chunky heels or platform Mary Jens. Use socks and Mary Jens to avoid being top-heavy and add layers to your outfit.
Compared with dresses and Mary Jane, pants and Mary Jane bring a more rebellious, personalized sense of contrast.
My favorite way to wear it is Mary Jane shoes with jeans. As a single item with strong French style properties, and the old washed blue denim is a perfect match, such a combination with the simplest shirt or white T can have a casual and romantic sense of literature and art.
Basic trench coat, jeans, shirts, Yang Caiyu to show the essence of the French incisively and vividly, low-key and feminine.
Bruce Oldfield, Princess Diana's favourite designer, once said that designers often look to the past for inspiration. It's not hard to explain why fashion is a cycle. Classic designs like Mary Jane shoes can still inspire us after all these years.
