Wear This Shoe Trend If You Want to Wear Flats But Still Look Dressed Up

Per usual, Katie Holmes has been busy providing us with plenty of shoe-shopping inspiration this week. First, she showed us the best shoes to wear with cropped jeans, and now, it's the best flat-shoe trend to wear out at night. While arriving for a performance of Our Town (her current gig) in Times Square earlier this week, Holmes showed us the shoe trend to wear after dark when you just want to wear flats. The trend I'm referring to is velvet flats.
Holmes opted for a denim jacket over a cashmere sweater and a long slip skirt both in burgundy to pair with her gold velvet Mary Janes. Wearing heels with the somewhat dressy skirt would've been the obvious choice, but Holmes's pretty flats are just as evening appropriate.
Keep scrolling to shop for velvet flats to dress up your own outfits in the foreseeable future.
On Katie Holmes: 6397 Chore Coat in Washed Grey ($525); Falconeri Ultrasoft Cashmere V-Neck Sweater($295) and Silk Satin Skirt ($325); Tod's bag; Aeyde Uma Velvet Mary Jane Ballet Flats ($375)
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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.
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