You have 2 weeks before starting a new job and a shopping ban, so what do you do?

First you want to make sure you have all the basic staples--in this case, shoes--for a formal business setting (hello world of conservative).

• Black flats? check
  
• Black pumps? check (wore those to the interview, duh)
  
• Black mary-janes? check
  
• Tall black boots? check
• Brown flats? not check, but plenty of alternatives
• Brown mary-janes? check (thank you DSS)
• Tall brown boots? check
• Brown pumps?!? NOT CHECK

so this is what we are considering:


**using the handy little LUCKYBREAKS7 code for 25% off, plus the 20% rewards on shoes.com makes ordering all three a no-brainer; just to try them on, i'm only keeping 1 pair (SM tends to be painful anyway, but who knows about those Delmans)!


***UPDATED 9/23: the Delmans were very stiff (shocking!) and the SM's in the middle didn't fit my right foot at all? A little weird in my opinion, given that my left foot is the one that is slightly bigger =/