Ankle boots are without a doubt a closet staple, but when the weather is warmer and hemlines are shorter, are they really still acceptable to keep wearing? The answer is undoubtedly yes—with a few guidelines, of course. While the fashion set has frequently been favoring western-style boots this summer, not everyone is as open to the idea of wearing thick leather on their feet while the asphalt is a solid 90+ degrees. Our suggestion when it comes to finding ankle boots that are perfect yea...

While last year was mostly dedicated to comfortable house shoes, we're now seeing trendy summer shoes back on the market and back in the closets of fashion insiders. So if you've been craving some footwear newness like this editor has, there are plenty of cool styles to pay attention to. Curious to find out where my fellow editors stand on the best summer shoe trends this season, I asked them to weigh in about the styles sitting in their shopping carts as well as the silhouettes they're passing...

Over the past 18 months, we have seen a shift towards practicality in fashion, and this is seen most acutely with footwear. We need our shoes to be able to take us on countless laps of the park without causing us any trouble, and so high heels have been universally retired. Fashion brands have for several seasons been bringing us sturdy, responsible shoes—the kind of styles that you'd try to run away from when finding shoes at Clarks in sixth grade. Think T-bar loafers, chunky lace-ups, and ...

There are certain topics we cover every single summer, and what shoe trends to wear with shorts is undoubtedly one of them. Let's face it: Shorts can be a little tricky to style and we know (from personal experience) that advice on the subject is appreciated. So as we do pretty much each and every summer, we scoured Instagram for examples of stylish people wearing shorts, coming to lots of shoe trend conclusions along the way.It could be argued that it's possible to make any shoe style work w...