The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-06-09
FAIRY FEMININE FEET,
WHAT DAME FASHION PROVIDES
FOR HER FOLLOWERS

Dainty Styles of Footgear That Are to
be Worn This Summer-New Things
in Tennis and Yachting and Outing
shoes-Evening Shoes Must Match
Ones Gloves and Gown.
Copyright Securely
NEW YORK, June lit is with Joy and
gladness that the spring beauty takes her
walks abroad, for high heels are abolished
for the promenade and the boot with a
pointed toe is not put on for q shopping ex-
petition. The fashion-terrible and mag
nificent word-decrees that the dressing of
the feet must be differentiated this summer
according to the hour of the day and the
style Of the gown. To wear diamonds at
breakfast is not worse form than to keep
ones "dress" boots continually on parade
Proper footwear has always been consid-
cred more absolutely essential TO being well
dressed than the wearing of fine gowns,
and proper footwear means this season
shoes of one kind for walking and of quite
different varieties for the carriage, the
house and the evening 1t is coming to be
generally acknowledged that the woman
who would sport Louis Quinze heels on
Broadway is of the same class as she who
walks the street in a conspicuous dinner or
opera toilet, model whose style it is safest
to-avoid.
The genuine walking boot is after the
English model this summer. 1t is made of
soft pliable leather and on the common
sense" last with heels not more than an inch
in hight, square set and not under the mid
die of the foot, and toes square or a little
rounded SO as to give the toes room without
cramping or overlapping. A p inted tip of
patent leather is quite the most correct orna-
mentation for shoe of this kind, the en-
tire vamp of patent leather, though snowy
at the outset, being liable to creasing and
stretching and being too sensitive to heat
to make comfortable walking boot for
summer. The walking shoe may button or
lace, according to the taste of the wearer,
thong the laced boot is decidedly in the
ascendant with fashionables, since the In
vention of lace hooks that will not catch
the gown, as being far more trig and trim
to walk in. A laced boot will always keep
its shape, where a buttoned boot grows
loose and unsightly, though its convenience
recommends the button to all women
not young and to stout women. The side
laced boot has no advantages and only
misses ugliness when worn on foot that is
very slender.
For material, we are returning this sum-
mer to cloth tops on many of the new
boots for walking. Plain black cloth is the
standby for the dark hued aud sober tailor
gowns, but for the lighter and airier but
terfiy toilets every shade of dress material
Is reproduced to match the gloves and the
gown, since oozs leather as well as cloth can
be dyed any color.
If one wants walking boot of strictly
correct pattern one sends for one of the
newly imported English bootmakers, who
waits upon my lady in her boudoir and
measures her feet after the most approved
British fashion. The pieces of footgear
sent home by this functionary are not small,
no more is the bill Notions regarding the
feet have altered since the days when Suck
ling likened his lady's feet to mice peeping
in and out from the folds of her petticoat,
| and even since Tennyson compared Maud's
! feet to gems set in the green of the En-
| glish turf. Ideals nowadays are on a less
babyish scale. Not a tiny foot, but one
| which is finely shaped and symmetrical,
which will carry its owner well and strong
| ly through the world, is desired. Women, es-
pecially young ones, have been slow to learn
that long slim effect is far more graceful
and comfortable as well as smaller than
short bunchy ono, but they have learned it
| at last hence the success of the English
bootmaker. Most of his wares, when they
do not lace up the front, have an inside
lace, to fit the boot snugly over the ankle
|
| If a woman likes her walking boots some
what ornamented she may choose a pair in
| the Waukenphast style, with the straight
| toe cap stitched across in the manner of a
mans boot, or she may yield to the craze
| for novelty and go in for colors and color
combinations. Green is very popular and
! so are bright and dull reds in ooze leather
Russell, mouse, coffee, tan and bronze are
| color staples and are accounted modest in
| a of ho ctTr
! not extreme example of the possibilities
| of ooze leather is given in a walking boot
| calculated to give the foot an appearance
| of extreme slimness and length, and made
| with laced vampS Of ooze calf in color let
tuce green and stitched partly with its own
| color and partly with black; the quarter is
| of mouse color and the tops and lace pieces
are bound with a piping OF tan ooze. The
toe caps are of patent leather, stitched with
! black and green. A walking boot with the
upper made of different colored, narrow
| strips of ooze leather woven together in
| gay basket work; walking boot with
| vamp, quarter toe cap and heels all of diff
ferent colors and not too sober ones ought
| to suit the taste of the most extreme, but
whatever the vagaries the low heel, the
broad toe and the comfortable shape
remain the same.
Last year and the year before that we
| had a tennis shoe; this year We have
| yachting shoe, a tourist shoe, vacation shoe
| in addition to the humble general utility
| tennis shoe. Even this latter has changed
| somewhat, for while most of the tennis shoes
| in former seasons have differed from ordi-
nary shoes only by the addition of rub
| Der sole, the real tennis shoes are now
made of strong linen, faced with leather
and are regularly soled with India rubber
or with felt more often. The new tennis
shoe is cut high or low. and is made up in
black canvas stitched with gold very fire.
quently. The yachting shoes are Of two
varieties, for gala day trips over smooth
water and for real service 'where the salt
winds blow and the waves dash high" The
one style is shown in maroon leather with
white heels and white ribbon lacings, in
navy blue and white, and in gray kid with
| black ribbons aud heels The other species
is much less SMART rubber-soled an
kle shoe. The riding boot is now made
with a tan or maroon leg of Morocco
leather and French kid or patent leather
foxing.
The Oxford tie holds its own in spite of
the doctors who are proclaiming loudly that
weak ankles are the direct result of much
walking in low shoes. Oozs calf, kid and
dongola are the ftvored materials and
medium heels and toes, not quite so low nor
so broad as for the walking shoe, are often
est seen. Ga the street tie tie is worn with
over CATERS to match the dress; when meant
for indoor wear coquettish lacings of rib
bon or cord and great variety Of col rs