Advice Needed

I love summer for many reasons, but one of them is the footwear. It’s so easy to find cute sandals to wear, they’re inexpensive, and all is fine and dandy. And then comes Fall (and Winter….) and you have to wear close-toed shoes. Ick. Herein is my dilemma. I need to find some cute, versatile shoes to wear. I’m a professor, so they  need to be somewhat professional, but I don’t necessarily want to wear heels all the time, but I could probably use some anyways….. maybe I should just buy like 5 pairs of shoes and call it good. Haha goodness knows that I’d be just happy with that (my checkbook would highly disagree though). So…. what do you think? Type of shoe? Color? Style? I don’t even have a direction right now, otherwise I’d put up options and ask. What a conundrum…..