Dress Pumps & Heels

A dress shoe is only useful if you can stay in it. Everything in this collection is chosen on that basis: pointed and squared toes, stilettos and block heels, mary janes and slingbacks, each one built with a cushioned insole and arch support underneath the polish.

Finishes run through smooth leather, high-shine patent and soft suede, in black, ivory, natural, taupe, red and blue. Block heels give a wider base for days that involve pavement, stairs and standing; slim stiletto heels keep the line sharp when the occasion asks for it. Adjustable buckle straps and slingbacks matter more than they look — a strap that fastens is what stops a heel sliding at the back, which is the difference between a shoe worn all evening and one carried home.

These are shoes for a long working day that ends somewhere dressier: office to dinner, a ceremony, a wedding where the walking is never mentioned on the invitation. Sizes run from 5 to 13, in medium and wide widths, because a dress shoe that does not fit the foot is not really a dress shoe. Everything here is women's footwear, chosen and fitted by a shop that measures feet in Brooklyn.