The shoes chosen for appearance still have to carry the person inside the occasion.

Choices made for the photograph get lived in for the whole evening. A shoe picked for how it looks will still be there for the standing, the walk to the car, and the last hour when everything aches. An occasion is not an image; it is several hours spent inside a body. Anything chosen only for how it reads to others sends you the bill later.

For the next event you dress for, pick one item for comfort rather than effect and see whether the evening improves. Ask what the final hour will feel like, not only the first photograph.