The Logan County banner. [volume] (Logan, W. Va.) 1889-1903, 1892-06-30
SOCIETY'S FREAKS.
Ono OF the Latest Is Photograph
,Rg the Feet.
Fashionable women Have Their Comely
Pedals Either Cast In Plaster, Bronze
or Marble or Give tho Camera
q Shot at Them. se

from that to which all are accustomed,
of course, draws forth comment for the
time being, but tho talk is short lived,
and few days roll around before society
is discussing the merits of another in
novation. What an endless amount OF
gossip, says the Detroit Free Press, was
caused by the adoption of the decollete
dresses not many years ago. How the
cartoonists strove to Guido each other In
their caricatures, and how the para
graphists 1abored to produce funnier
jokes about the prevailing styles than
their rivals. Yet this is all over, and to-
day high-necked dress is indeed rare
at grand ball. So with all things, the
young man and his lummerbund, par
ticularly. But they appear to have
come to stay until the people who foster
these departures tire of them and look
for something new.
These changes, or progress, as they
are termed, are not alone confined to
dress. All the arts must step up in
their turns and accept with good grace
changes which would make the old
masters seek oblivion in some convenient
cave. Among the most noticeable fads
Of this season are two which have given
the photographer and designer in plaster
of paris quite a revenue. In some
cline lady with a pretty foot, which
she could notxdisplay to q sufficient de-
rec to satisfy her vanity, owing to the
social restrictions which compel both
rich and poor to wear shoes, conceived
the idea of having cast taken and a
likeness made in bronze. Like wildfire
did the craze spread until it has per
yaded the civilized world. In some
cities which never assume the initiative
in such departures, the establishment
of this custom was slower than in the
metropolises of both worlds, but it came
at last, and now the sculptor, or what
ever you may call the artistic plasterer,
is reaping a harvest Detroit belongs
to this latter class, and some members
of its population have the malady badly.
The method was learned at studio
where the work is performed. Coyly
does the maiden acquaint the master
with the object of her visit, and time
Is set for the casting. She returns on
the appointed day, and, releasing her
foot from the prison of silk and leather
which protects it from earthly sub
stances on which the natives trampled
in bygone years, she places 1t in the
position told. A SILVER creeps up her
spinal column as the plaster is applied,
and when the foot has been completely
covered as high as the ankle the cast
is taken Off and allowed to dry for q
week. Then it is slightly moistened
and the liquid plaster is poured in the
mold, from which it is taken as soon as
sufficiently dried, and then the final
drying and smoothing off takes place.
At the end Of week there is an exact
counterpart of the foot in plaster of
paris. ,rs
The work is difficult and the price for
a plaster cast is twenty-five dollars II
the lady desires it in bronze the cost is
sixty dollars; and If in marble one
hundred and fifty dollars, and probably
more if the sculptor's reputation is such
as to warrant him in charging one per-
son enough to pay his elementary edu-
cation in the art.
The expense of the plaster and bronze
casts makes it impossible for the lady
to distribute these touching remem4
ORANGES of herself, and some genius in
feminine garb launched the idea of hav-
ing the foot photographed 1t has
taken well in the east, and it has, been
reported that ladies right here in De-
troit have had their feet taken"
One cannot CLEAN the slightest ides
of what the foot looks like from the
shoe except as to length, and in the
days when the heels were worn under
the instep you couldn't tell even that.
ut is not the foot which looks pretty
in the shoe which is perfect, not by any
means, said an artist. "As a rule the
women having the prettiest feet wear
the most comforta BILE shoes and their
feet look larger and not nearly as
shapely as those Of the women who
wear tight shoes when on the street"