For some woman, it is considered sacrilegious to wear the same outfit that was worn before to another occasion, apropos with her shoes. If you have a talent for dressmaking or you have your own seamstress (lucky me I got 3 dressmaker sisters) , then the dress can be altered but you are somewhat limited to what you can do with it, maybe accessorize it or forget about it. I hang on to my shoes as much as possible, especially if the fit is excellent and it is not giving me mountains of bunions or calluses as rough as sandpaper . Eventually I will get tired of the shoe but it is mighty difficult to give it away, donate it or throw it. Then maybe its time to pimp the shoes, add more pizzas to it , make it look new. When my vanity outsizes my bank account, then my creativity rears its beautiful head . I thought of getting shoe clips, its like clips used for ...