The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1894-02-09
FAIR WOMAN'S FOOTWEAR.

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admire his work.-N. I. Sun.
FAIR WOMAN'S FOOTWEAR.
The style Of shoe an Index to tho Wear
er's Character.
When a woman judges a woman's
costume she commences at the bonnet
When man pronounces upon wo
mans attire he begins at the boots II
they are above reproach in the matter
of fastenings, if they are snug and
well fitted. and seem to indicate that
they conceal slender ankles and small
feet, the man pronounces the woman
smartly dressed, even if the gown be
two seasons old and the bonnet back
number. And the most gorgeous at
tire is lost upon the man who catches
beneath the silken skirts worn and
running over shoe, or one badly fitted,
or lacking by so much as single but
ton in completeness.
Now that faultless dresser, the
French woman, would as soon think
of wearing a ready-made gown as a
shoe not made to order on her own par
ticular last She recognizes the fact
that shoe turned out on general
model will not fit foot made on par
ticular model French women have
the prettiest feet in the world, pre-
sumably because they take the best
care Of them. They never dream OF
torturing their feet by wearing pointed
toes and high heels on their walking
boots, even though they walk far less
cySfa a
rarely happens, their feet are broad
and pudgy, they select shoe much
longer in size than is necessary. and
thus decrease the apparent width
Soft kid they choose because it is more
comfortable to wear and can be fitted
more snugly than heavier leather. One
place on the boot is always tight, and
that is over the instep. Whatever her
moral standards may admit OF in the
way of elasticity, French womaa's in
tegrity of principle in regard to her
shoe buttons is of the kind the patri-
OTIS and early martyrs died for. One or
two intrigues, lover more or less
that can be forgiven. But shoe but
ton forgetful of its high calling-that
is beyond pardon.
Now the average woman goes into
the shoe store and insists that she
wears a shoe two sizes smaller than
her number That is one of the odd
things about a woman. She will die
for a principle, and she wouldn't lie to
save her own husband from the gal
lows; but the best of them all is per-
fectly unprincipled when it comes to
the matter Of shoes. Having announced
that she wears three shoe when she
needs four, she insists that it is plenty
large enough, and hobbies out on her
poor cramped toes, just to show the
impertinent clerk how mistaken he
was. The result is that the new boots
are never comfortable until they have
been stretched quite out of shape and
are worn and shabby. Then she re-
peats the performance, and the result
is that she spends most of her life in
old shoes, only wearing the new ones
on occasions, when the pain must be
borne smilingly because there is no
other way.
Now the real secret of well-dressed
foot is this: Buy the new shoes SO
large and comfortable in fit that they
can be put on and worn without dis
comfort. A new boot two sizes too
large is heater and moro attractive
than a worn one ever so small, and the
foot looks smaller in it. Wearing old
shoes is habit which it takes some
thing more than the Kelley cure to
break up Burn up the shabby slip
pers and try new ones of such soft kid
and so large in size that you can put
them on with perfect comfort Have
many pairs of shoes on hand at the
same time and change from one to the
other to rest the feet. In most of the
shoe stores of the best class the filters
know exactly the kind of boot wo-
man needs, and if she doesn't insist
on wearing one three sizes too small or
on being fitted into certain number
because ''she has always worn it and
knows that her foot isn't any larger
now than it was six years ago." even
though she has increased her weight
by one-third, she will get a well-ftted
boot. IN. Y. Sun.