ThreadCurve readers have been voting on shoes, bags and jewellery: a heart or a thumbs-down under every photo, from vintage handbags and brooches to loafer-and-jeans mistakes. We’ve pulled it into one report: 25,469 votes from 3,913 readers on 719 photos, the reasons readers gave, and 4,155 poll answers.
Vintage won
Pieces that read as vintage drew 69% hearts, ahead of boho, minimalist and classic. Statement pieces drew 54%. A guide to wearing vintage brooches drew 83%.
Pearls and stone lead the materials
Pearl and stone drew 84%, ahead of silver-tone and gold-tone metal; canvas and fabric came last (44%). Among colours, brown did best against its own articles.
And the pairings readers rejected
The photos in our mistakes articles drew 27% hearts, and 126 of the 161 with 25+ votes drew more thumbs-downs than hearts: loafer-and-jeans mistakes drew 29%, white sneakers with dresses 21%. Sneakers themselves are popular: in our polls, 52% pick sneakers as their daily shoes.
The full report
The Shoes & Accessories Report pools the photos by item, style, material, colour, size and hardware, ranks the most- and least-loved looks and the pairing mistakes, and adds why readers voted the way they did and 16 polls. It includes the full dataset.
Get the full report at StatwrenHow we did this
- Readers tapped a heart or a thumbs-down under each photo in 24 of our shoe, bag and jewellery articles between Aug 30, 2026 and Nov 5, 2026. One vote per reader per photo.
- Votes are anonymous: no names, emails or accounts. Readers were reacting to photos, not the items in hand.
- Percentages are the share of hearts. Traits such as item and style were read from each photo; article groupings are ours.
- More on how we collect reader data: How our reader data works.