Democratic Sentinel, Volume 15, Number 23, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 June 1891 — A Built-Up Shoe. [ARTICLE]

A Built-Up Shoe.

How the dear women increase in their knowledge of the art of beauty and beautifying, but the men invented the artifices, so to them goes the credit. The latest device is the “.nstep pad.” “What is that?” the unlnitated inquire Why, a passport to the claim of aristocracy—it is to make a perfect foot; an aristocratic high instep to the women unfortunate enough to possess a “low bred” foot. It is simply a little linen pad, fitted in place directly over the instep at the place where, like old Uncle Ned’s hair, the instep ought to be, but isn’t. Shoemakers are preparing to keep a stock of these high insteps with the moderately low heels now demanded by sense and fashion. It is next to imposstb'e so get a shoe with a high instep, except one made on what is known as the “Spanish last.” A ridiculously high heel Is a part of the make-up of these shoes.— Poatr Dispatch.