Fashion: Brogues - your new Spring footwear staple

So our feet have been in our favourite pair of over-the-knee, ankle, or biker boots for what feels like forever. Well its time to embrace the new footwear trend for Spring - brogues. 

Like the Marant dixie ankle boots that we all subscribed to in some form a few years back, they go with everything. 

I first fell in love with them when I saw a suede cream pair last year at the Stone's concert in Hyde Park. They were being rocked by a super cute twenty something girl with a v short floral tea dress and some pastel frilly ankle socks. She just looked the epitome of festival chic cool. 

Church's classic brogues

Ok so I may need to lose the frilly ankle socks, but brogues are absolutely something us mums in our 30 and 40s can rock. Wear them with rolled up boyfriend jeans, with a pretty floral dress or with cigarette pants and a blazer for instant Parisian chic. 

If you are willing to invest in your new footwear staple, then it has to be a pair of Church's, but the high street have equally good offerings - below are a selection from Dune and Clarks...