Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 8, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 January 1915 — English Women’s Feet. [ARTICLE]

English Women’s Feet.

The short skirts now in vogue in London are making one fact quite •evident,; that Englishwomen's feet are larger than they were the last time short Bkirts were in fashion.

A reporter watched a number of his countrywomen at smart tea shops and in fashionable thoroughfares and was convinced that this was the case, so he went to various Shoe stores for confirmation, and there he learned the truth, that the Englishwomen are taking far larger sizes in shoes than in former days. Substantial Awes and sixes are required in place of the twos and threes which used to be worn. Indeed one shoe dealer informed the reporter that in the last ten years the lowest size in women's shoes had risen from a two a half' to a five, that is from a 9 l-2Jinch shoe to a 10 inch shoe. In proportion as sizes have increased heels have grown higher, till now It is not an -uncommon sight to see a tall Englishwoman adding to her stature by 3 1-2 inch heels, on which she totters along. • The feet of Anaerioan women are not getting larges*, any English shoe dealers. In fact it Is' for American .sales that the, small,raises are kept at some of the larger shops.—New York Sun.