The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1880-05-20
Summer Fashions I'm Shoes.


When short dresses are fashionable,
the hit and size OF ones boots is sub.
ject OF serious consideration, says lie
Boston Transcript. and this summer Miss
Flora MI Fnmsey will give the shoe
makers no peace until her loot Is made
to look as small, II not smaller, than
that OF any OF her irleLds. Her TASK
will be rather dI fficult. for Flora has
been weaving LOUIS Quinze hee,s SO
long that her little foot Is sadly twiste
anu distorted, and all the soaking in
natural water, all the polishing with
pumice, and all the rubbing with per-
tuned Oil that an Egyyllan beauty
could teach her to lavish upon il would
not restore it to the graceful slender
ness that it had in the days when her
sensible grandmother made her wear Il
boot that left half an inch space beyond
her great toe. She is no worse than
most other girls, or most other men,
for that matter, for only about three
persons out of hundred wear shoes
that are as long rs they should be.
The pretty three-strap slippers are
still worn, but even with these the ten
dency is to the plainest sty les, and the
glittering steel is replaced by jet, and
sometimes left off together, and slip
pers with two bows or one bow are
preferred. There are great many
patterns, from the four tightly strapped
loops to the little cascade bows that
have five full loops each side of the
strap, and from the lusterless silk to the
lace and satin butterfly bows that are
made to wear with black grenadine
dresses in Spanish styles, but the favor
ite design is like the little cascades
that are worn for neckties, is almost
four inches long, and nearly covers the
instep; when worn with a giove.kid
slipper this looks we'll with almost any
dress. The Nelson buttoned shoe and
the Newport tie will both appear in
the street this summer, as they did last
year, but the English fancy for low
shoes stitched with white has not yet
been imported, and until our climate
becomes more equable, boots will be
preferred to shoes for general wear.
Broad-toed boots with the Scotch welt
are made for girls who take long coun-
try walks and climb mountains bv way
OF recreation, and Tor those who will be |
foolish is there not the D'Orsay Slipper
that has the heel somewhere under the |
hollow of the foot, and curves up at |
Il back and down in the cente~, and |
has toe-piece that curls up to cover |
the bunch of ill-used muscles crowded |
to he top of the instep? For evening |
wear black or white satin slippers are |
most used, the demand for these having |
sprung up within a lew months and |
attained almost to the dimensions which |
it. had in the days when no beauty |
would have dared to dance in any other |
shoe. Lawn tennis, of course, demands |
its own special shoe, and those worn in |
this country are far prettier than the |
hideous Queen Anne ankle-ties that |
S lme English players of the game affect. |
The grooved rubber sole makes this |
shoe clumsy in appearance, but by dint |
OF tying it with bright ribbons and |
varying the lor of its kid mountings |
it is made becoming.
In children's shoes common sense |
comes even nearer to being supreme |
than in those worn by ladies, for it is
almost impossible to sell a very high
heeled boot OF fine quality, and even
those short-sighted persons who select
cheap shoes are learning that it is better
to have those that are low. heeled. |
White, blue and pink boots are worn in
full dress, but their appearance in the
street usually indicates that the small
person who stands in them has foolish
mother or has no other shoes.