Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 36, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 February 1912 — Clumsy Shoes on English Women. [ARTICLE]

Clumsy Shoes on English Women.

Londoners are beginning to make insidious Comparisons between the eve> ning appearance of their women and that of American visitors. The shoes worn after dark by Queen Mary's sub-. jects are the principal cause of it. One of the smartest of London’s bootsellers has denounced the way"society women of the British metropolis are shod, and in the same breath has praised the graceful little slippers of “our American cousins." English women, he insists, will make their toilet, from the tip of their aigrettes to the hem of their skirt, with the most admirable care, but then will put on Clumsy shoes. If the weather is inclement the English woman will not hesitate to wear boots she uses for wallring in the country to the theater or opera or dinner in a fashionable restaurant. The best of English slippers, experts admit, are not in the same class with the Of course, the English bootsellers -are not advising their patrons to buy slippers in America.