If You're Going to Wear a Dress With Ankle Boots, This Is the Trend That Looks the Least Dated

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Suki Waterhouse wearing a black leather jacket, mini dress, and slouchy ankle boots
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You can always count on Suki Waterhouse to add her signature boho twist to whatever outfit she's wearing, and that's exactly what she just did. In this case, it was via her shoes. For obvious reasons, dresses are typically put on the back burner this time of year, but if you choose to wear one anyway, despite the cold, you're probably going to want to wear boots with it. So let's discuss the type of boots.

There's been much discussion about whether ankle boots are out or in, but I see them as a staple. That said, there are certainly types of ankle boots that can look a bit dated, so if they're going to be on full display with, say, a minidress, you want to choose a trend-forward style such as Waterhouse's. With her black leather jacket and pastel minidress, she opted to wear a pair of slouchy ankle boots. Slouchy boots made a strong comeback this fall, with the fashion crowd pairing them with dresses, skirts, and jeans. The effortless look of the trend was the perfect match for Waterhouse's simple leather-jacket-and-minidress outfit, so I highly suggest styling slouchy ankle boots just as she did while out in NYC this week.

Keep scrolling to shop Suki Waterhouse's chic boho-inspired dress outfit, along with a handful of other slouchy ankle boots that are perfect with dresses and everything else.

Suki Waterhouse wearing a black leather jacket, mini dress, and slouchy ankle boots

(Image credit: TheStewartofNY/GC Images/Getty Images)

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Allyson Payer
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Allyson is a senior editor forBest Knockoff Luxury Clothing . She joined the company in 2014 as co-founder Katherine Power's executive assistant and over the years has written hundreds of stories forBest Knockoff Luxury Clothing . Prior to her career in fashion, Allyson worked in the entertainment industry at companies such as Sony Pictures Television. Allyson is now based in Raleigh, North Carolina, and is originally from Baton Rouge, Louisiana. She holds a BFA in theater arts. Her path to fashion may not have been linear, but based on the number of fashion magazines she collected as a child and young adult, it was meant to be.