Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1883-08-10
FEMALE FEET.
The recuiiaritics Of Fort Worth Foctsie'
Tut.iss-A Reporters Observations.


The recuiiaritics Of Fort Worth Foctsie-
Tutsies-A Reporters Observations.
A GAZETTE man walked into one of
the big shoe establishments of his city
Yesterday to ii; himself out in pair OF
tooth pick shoes witt brtss buttons,
and was sutpris,d 10 see 50 many lady
customers in the place. In fact, he be-
gan TO think IL was a lady's shoe store,
for the smiling erks never took any
notice OF him until the pretty girls
were all zone, and an old girl with a
polka-dOt lace aud terra Gotta nose
ssdied in the door, and then all the
clerks wanted tn wait on the reporter.
He selected one Of them whom he
thought looked Il little talkative, and
saw another 20 with "A subdued and
dowrcast face TO theold girl.
"What pecuiarites have you
noticed in the feet OF your lady custom-
ers was The query propounded to
the shoe salesman. one who had not
only fitted the feet of Western females,
from the enormous eXtrt nifty found in
the Black bills 10 the deiicate foot If
the Qualify hin belle, but who for
many years sold aristucratic shoes 10
the intellectual creatures VINO live un.
der the shadow OF the Bunker hill
monument.
We'll sir. am proud to say
that the ladies' OF Fort Worth
as Il general thing have the hand-om
est feet | have ever seen IN Western
city. Your Western ladies usually
have very broad feet, but here they
are narrow and beautifully shaped.
The length of Il wOman's foot does not
keep it from being pretty ii it is narrow
ami we'll shaped
What sizes are most generally
used here9N
I'VE have more customers for mum
her twOs than amy Uth.r, but the &c.
mand is from one and half to three
and Il half. We have Very little trou-
ble in pleasing our customers here.
The sizes are such tina, we can almost
always fill the demand. j is Il sales.
man S horror to have lady come IN
and ask for Il number four shoe on Il u
or + last. 1t is almost iul-
possible 10 fit such n
customer, but I am glad To say we
have but few of them. he majority
of the feet here ale narrow and thin
/ and it.does not take three minutes To fiji
them. The ladies here wear Very fine
shoes, which are always carefully
made and always give satisfaction.
DO you sell many slippers ,"
Shippers are worn . great deal in
warm weather, and, since the black
stocking has been the rage, slipper,
have grown very popular. Ladies dt
not like to Wear slippers au fancy
stockings, and neither do their father,
and brothers want them to wear them
on the stree. The slippers we sell are
plain, but made Of fine nii
terial aud b .autifu!ly SHAPED
y woman with pretty shaped Il OF
knows well how attractive she looks
in "a slipper and il is hard to resist til;
temptation To wear themn
no wome have cCrns ~
Young man, have YOU lived so
/ many years of usefulness to ask such a
/ question as that? Corns, JUDGED well
| should say so. Did you ever see a
dec mt razor about house where there
are women. They cut them lust tc
see low nice.ya good razor viii doE
F.! Oh, YES. they have the worst corns in
the would and sometimes sufftr in
! tensely from them.'
Just herea young lady came trip
( ping IN and the Salesman rushed W /,
meet her and left the reporter dream.
! ing over q panoroma of pretty feet
| pretty stockings and pretty girls an,
wishing that he was q Fort Wor;h
+ shoe salesman