Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 247, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 November 1917 — Tricks of Vanity. [ARTICLE]

Tricks of Vanity.

According to tradition, the Introduction to fashionable society of my lady’s dainty, pointed-toe shoe harks back to the reign of William 11, when mere man, in the form of a certain Count Fulk ; first wore a long, pointed boot to conceal the disfigurement -of feet “misshapen by bunions.” A trick of vanity closely akin is the high guimpe introduced by the secqnd wife of Philip HI of France, “for the special benefit of her long throat and ilat chest,” while it is claimed that the ruff, which has had so great an influence upon . woman’s neckwear from generation to generation, was invented in Henry Vi’s time bjrfa Spanish lady of quality to hide a wen ou her neck. —_ ' \