Beyonce, Rowland and Williams paired their Singer leather outfits with Proenza Schouler booties and black tights.

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On he capers, knock-kneed, curly-shoed, spindly-legged in awful black tights, like something out of the Beano!

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Except when you wear black tights and black pumps, the shade of your shoes should always be neutral from taupe to butterscotch to bronze.

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It had to include a habit, a veil, black shoes and black socks or tights.

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In the coat department, a 20-something couple (he in black mohair, she in denim shorts and red tights) argue loudly about the merits of a fake-fur jacket, while a couple of German tourists trundle by with flapper-style dresses slung over the top of their suitcases.

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