Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1888-06-14
wHIMs OF WOMEN.
New York Shoe Dealer Chats About His
Fair Customer.

Fair Customers.
"YeS. it takes unlimited patience to
tit shoes now, but always like to fit =
fidget of a woman, even if it is work
OF art, for she will 90 and tell 81 the
other tidgets in her set, and they will
say: 30. if he can fit Mrs. X, who is
very particular, he can surely fit mer
So they will all come. and it is the fussy
women who buy the most expensive
shoes. Three-fourths of the women
wear shoes too small, or, if they have
their shoes made to order. we have to
mark them STU aller size than they are
or they will not be satisfied II shoe
must be tight. let it be in width rather
than length. for short shoes are the
bane of shoe dealers and the essential
blessing and creators of chiropodists.
Women resent long shoe in peculiar
way, though they will accept wide
one without murmur. There seems to
be a certain disgrace in No. 5 length.
but no stigma is attached to double E
width. Some ladies' after they are mar
they themselves are concerned. but de-
vote their energies to making cripples
of their children by crowding their feet
into tiny. fancy little boots. and some
women never overcome their vanity in
this line.
"IknOw lady whose hair is as white
as mine and whose age approximates
sixty, who will insist upon wearing the
same-sized shoe she wore when a girl,
though she has gained twenty-five
pounds in flesh. 1t is the most singular
thing about women, this obstinacy
about their shoes. All over my store
are signs reading: DO not wear too
short shoes Insist on being properly
fitted and vet three-fourths of the
ladies 60 out with shoes that make
them wretched. and had as lief 60 TO
their dentist as 10 come here 10 be
fitted"
The different varieties of shoes now
run up in the hundreds. There are the
new kid walking boots, both high and
low, with a diamond-shaped tip of
patent leather, most popular of all, the
natty little patent leather vamped boot
with cloth tops, the house shoe of plain
soft kid, the party shoe. as soft as a
glove, with a sole so thin that it can
be rolled up like a shaving; the scarlet
seaside shoe, the new half shoe of I'M
dressed kid in delicate gray or tan,
with the heavy George Washington
buckle of Oxidized silver on the toe or
fastened in bow of soft ribbon on the
strap which buckles about the instep.
These slippers have high Louis XIV.
heels, and are exquisite producers
of pain. A natty little shoe of
scarlet leather, cut down low at the
sides like mans slipper, is displayed.
and slippers with nothing in the back
but sole are called mules. and made of
scarlet leather for bedroom use.
Party slippers are of bronze. I'M
dressed kid, or black kid. with the large
silver buckles, or embroidery of beads.
while brides slippers and shoes are
made of the material of their wedding
gowns, either with or without en-
broidery of pearls, and cost SIS or s1S.
Perhaps the most bewitching piece Of
foot gear manufactured is ladies'
riding boot, with its patent leather
vamps and top and soft kid legs. Some
times fringe Of gold bullion finishes
these boots at the top with tiny de-
pending tassels of gilt.-N. Y. Sun.