Dressed Foot Forward

December, 1981

While you won't be showing up at a board meeting in chartreuse patent-leather pumps, it is nonetheless true that the parameters of business and evening footwear have broadened appreciably. Today, you can wear a slip-on with a three-piece pinstripe or a brown-suede oxford with navy gabardine. And just as there is a movement to break out of the cliché black-tie look (see our party-clothes feature this month), so is there one to liberalize the definition of just what is formal footwear. Although co...