Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 214, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 September 1914 — PLAIN AND SENSIBLE SHOES [ARTICLE]

PLAIN AND SENSIBLE SHOES

Childish Footwear in Contrast With the Elaborate Finery of Their Costumes. If you look at the best-dressed fchildren in the parks or on the avenues of the big cities, you will see that they all wear sensibly shaped shoes —■ shoes that take a good coat of blacking and stand heavy wear, too. Eyen the white shoes for afternoon wear or for all-the-time wear—as some children wear them —have round, bulging toes. The pumps for house wear are never pointed, either. This is "hot because the children of today dress simply; not at ail, for never were the little frocks shown for children more expensively wrought with hand embroidery, lace rosettea and ruffles. .... And their shoes certainly cannot be patterned on the shoes of their elders, as many of their frocks are, for the shoes of their elders are anything but sensible. For some reason, no matter how much finery the small girl of the day wears, the shoes that go with it are sensible.