Once I find/make my dress, I'll pick shoes as comfy as your '01 shoes.
Just to explain this: I was helping with the setting up of the ballroom on the day of the Ball. I was dressed in sweats and stuff. Also, I was staying in a Marriott across the street and around the corner. Since it was a snowy, slushy late afternoon, I brought my dress and all that goes with it to the hotel so that I didn't have to go back and forth. Well, when it was time to get dressed, I realized that I had forgotten to take my shoes! So ---- rather than go out in that messy weather, I wore black running shoes under this long, lovely, crepe, two-piece black dress. Of course no one noticed the shoes, as the dress was long, but I was the only one still with a smile at the end of the evening!! I think I am going to wear slippers this time!