Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 200, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 August 1912 — BRILLIANCY IN SHOE COLORS [ARTICLE]

BRILLIANCY IN SHOE COLORS

Many of the Modes Verge on the Garish, Though Remarkably Pretty Effects Are Produced. Just as colors in hosiery have been used with discretion by the woman with a talent for dress, so have colors in our footgear. Some women have adopted gayly colored tops for their shoes with an eclat which carried them off; others have Impressed us with the vulgarity of the new whim. But one and all have fallen captive to the new Colonial slipper, which was Introduced along with the dashing little Dlrectoire coats, the Continental hats, stnd other reminders of the Napoleonic period. It is a jaunty little affair, which is simply bewitching on the right foot, a slender littld foot with a well arcbed Instep, for it boasts a broad pointed tongue, spreading out over the Insted, a high heel, on the Spanish order, and a stunning buckle just such a buckle -as the more fortunate of us have handed down for generations. We copyists of today select such a bucgle in gunmetal, leather, old silver, or, if we wish to be very rash, rhinestones. Can’t you see just how fascinating these slippers can be? For evening, our satin slippers, whether in black or a color to match the gown, are brilliant with buckles of the glittering rhinestones, or cut steeb The bow knots of platinum, set with brilliants, are entrancing as adornments to a dainty satin slipper. SUll another fancy calls for a button of brilliants.