Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 27, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 March 1896 — FASHIONABLE FOOTWEAR. [ARTICLE]

FASHIONABLE FOOTWEAR.

Mere Attention Paid to Cepafort and Canlenience Than Formerly. J . “Of course, for cnrrlhge wear, house wear, eyeqfxtg wear, the Louis Quinze •heel ts all the go—although 1 do not advocate women moving about all day inj the house, for instance, with their feet at the angle those keels enforce. Whether « woman is walking on the street or walking in the house her foot should be properly poised. The low heel and pointed toe, even an extremely pointed toe, ate to be preferred to the broad toe and high heel which prevailed h dozen or so years ago.” “Apd about the picadilly toes—are they vanishing?” w “A rounded toe f neither pointed nor we are making now for walking boots, but slippers still terminate in a sharp point, perhaps not as exaggerated as last season. “Buckles have little to do with the anatomy of the foot,” he added, “but I want to show you these cut-steel buckles on the! patent-leather slippers,’' and he tqiok from the show window a variety tof Cinderella-like footgear strapped \ind buckled in novel and dainty designs. They pretty enough for the roseleaf feet-ohfaJries. “In regard to leggings, a subject so important to the tuniced and gaited Rosalinds who flit through our parks and along our boulevards, it is revealed that shapely and satisfactory accessories of the kind are being made of black leather and pigskin. The majority are buttoned for convenience in getting Into them, but the more expensive are laced with delicate precision and fit like wax.

“Undoubtedly people pay much more attention to their feet, take better care of them and think more of their comfort now than they ever did. And well they neeij to do so,” quoth the shoemaker, emphatically. “Many people are one-sided and their bodies thrown clear out of plumb simply from always having balanced, themselves on absurd heels and having worn the wrong shape of shoe. I know personally an apparently sensible woman who weighed two hundred and twenty-five pounds and who wore habitually a one and onehalf shoe with a heel three inches high. She fell once or twice and hurt herself, but the fall was never attributed to the shoes. T have another customer, a finelooking girt of noble proportions, who invariably orders an ‘A’ last. It is entirely too narrow for her. Among the people who come to us to be fitted are. a great many whose feet are totally unlike. They have a corn, perhaps, on one foot, and habitually walk In such a way as to ease that foot; that is, throw the off the corn. A different set of muscles is used and the foot enlarges in a different way from its companion foot. Pepplp invariably ‘favor’ on* member of the body more than the other; in measuring for leggings one leg is often found much larger than the other, and the same is true in regard to feet. The shoes are made similar, but the feet are distinctly different.”—?!. Y. Tribune.