We love a pantsuit. It is versatile when you take it apart, empowering when you wear it together. It may have masculine origins, but it is also so feminine and sexy when you play your cards right. It is also highly comfortable, yet absolutely presentable whether you’re heading a meeting with the big shots or attending a frou-frou event. It is no surprise that the suit is the MO for so many of the street style pack – it’s not just the men.

Something as versatile as a suit, no matter the colour or print, should be fairly easy to work with in the shoe department, right? Well, largely. It all lies in the kind of suit. First, you want to make sure that the lines are clean and tailored. A boxy to intentionally oversized blazer gives a great silhouette when matched with straight-leg pants and a pointed shoe. Cropped pants give more room for going casual with heavy duty boots and sneakers. Extra long ones with a wide leg lets your legs go on forever when you pair them with a platform.

Pantsuits aren’t a tale as old as time, but they have been around for near forever in relative terms, so the possibilities with shoe choices are as endless as our wish list for the coming spring. But, if you need a guide, look no further than the 21 pantsuit looks we’ve gathered above. White shoes and sneakers seems to be overwhelming popular choices, but nothing beats the classics like pumps and loafers.

 

FANCY WHITES

 

SNEAKERS

 

TAKE-ANYWHERE PUMPS

 

LOAFERS

 

PLATFORMS

 

HEAVY DUTY BOOTS

 

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