Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 206, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 September 1918 — ABOUT OUR SHOES [ARTICLE]

ABOUT OUR SHOES

Buttoned Footgear Uses More Leather Than the Laced. Spat* Likely to Be Strongly in Favor Again as Well as Knitted Woolen Stockings. ■?' ■' - r Every woman with her eyes open inust have noticed that button shoes {are little worn, and no doubt the fact that lace shoes are, as a general thing, E eater and trimmer and more easily ept in condition has a good deal to jdo with this, declares a fashion writer. The fact that button shoes use up quite a little bit more leather than lace (shoes is the big reason behind their disappearance from fashion, say those who know. It does seem a very little leather to save, doesn’t it? But then this is the day when we-appreciate the (importance of very small things; the saving of a slice of bread a day, a lump of sugar or a half pound of meat —trifles that we are assured amount to enormous proportions in the aggregate. From the point of view of good sense pure and simple, we might wish that shoes for autumn were not going to be so thinly soled. Thicker soles are warmer and dryer and do not need repairing so often, but the government has decreed that for civilians no soles shall be of more than very moderate thickness, the exact thickness being set down by the rules in definite terms. Since the height of shoes is to be limited to eight and a half or nine Inches, there Is every reason to believe that low shoes will be worn tp a very great extent, even in cool weather. We are not in love with a low high shoe, though we find the Oxford entirely and, of course, if the nine-inch shoe is a conservation and patriotic shoe, the low shoe is even more so. To prevent the low shoe from being the cause of colds and chills, women will wear spats again as fondly as they did two seasons ago, or perhaps they will take to heavier stockings. Some women, you know, wore knitted woolen stockings last winter with low shoes, and found the combination warmer than high shoes .and the usual thin stockings.