The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1896-05-10
HAS HER SHOES SHINED.
THE NEW WRINKLE OF A BR0ARs
"a EIRM 10 hT1RACT WOMEN.

old women are beginning to wear 1t. Tn
Broad way firm which makes the shoe nndp
old ladies OF sixty and seventy among its Gus
toners, and they are Just IA enthusiastic -
the actresses, doctors. lawyers. and other We
men who have put on the shoe. The distinr
gushing characteristic of this particulsF
variety OF women's footwear ~ that IL is jusA
exactly like a mans shoe except In point Of
size. Specimens OF the shoes for men, for wo-
men, and for girls. make one think OF the bAa
bear, the little bear. and the middle-sized bess.
Women With feet OF generous proportions
wear shoes which are exact faC-si niles OF those
worn ty half grown boys. The probabilities
seem to be that the boy of this season WIN
have to keep a sharp eye on his shoes. lest his
big sister. or his mother. or even his grand
mother 10 tempted 10 appropriate them wheA
her own shoes need n shine.
There IL another new departure inaugurate4
by this same firm. TO every customer Is given
n ticket which entities the holder to City
shines In the various shops belonging to the
firm. Now. In days of old. when woman
wore thin kid shoes and sensibilities which
were even thinner. no one would have thought
OF giving her a ticket to have her Shoes
blackcd! But with the twentieth century
shoe IL is different. The women get their
ticket just the same as the men. What h
more to the point, every woman who has q
ticket comes around like u little man and gets
wi ~ bOhhtAiON h"S 50 Wv
in one shop alone this firm polishes the shoes
of about a hundred women every day.
The departure is such a new one, and the firm
was so uncertain as 10 how It would take, that
there are no chairs provided exclusively for
ladies. They mount the white marble stand
and sit alongside Of the men. Since the inno-
walton has proved such n success, however, Q
special polishing department will DO provides
for women.
AT first" said one of the dealers, ut IVES
rather difficult to induce the ladies to come
and have n shine They would blush when
! we suggested 1t, and although we could see THAI
they wanted to do it, they would hang hack
and say they would come some other time.'
Finally they would be on the street near here
and find their shoes muddy or rusty. when the
temptation of that card would prove too much
for them, and they would come around and
get their first shine. After they had once
broken the ice. they would come regularly.
We have two or three women doctors, the daugh-
ters of several prominent Judges. n great many
actresses, and very many charming and ex-
tremely we'll bred women who cone In several
times a week.
There is one thing l have noticed. !" he went
on, and that is that women are more careless
about their shoes than men are. They will
run over their heels and will not have them
Strengthened as u man would. / am very sorry
to say. also," and the shoeman wagged his
head. they rarely have as many buttons ona
shoe as they have buttonholes."
The twentieth century shoe will help women
out in this respect at least. for it is O laced
shoe. Most of the new styles, in fact. are laced
and not buttoned. The latest thing in bicycle
boots, however. is a combination of the two.
The shoeman said that cyclists were not a pa
tient enough class TO take the time to lace .
boot from the toe to the knee. Consequently he
had devised a laLor and time saver. 1t is .
boot which laces to the height Of an ordinary
shoe. Above that point there are n number Of
straps with buttonholes worked in them.
These ave buttoncd around the top. thus clos.
Ing the boot securely In, as the shoeman intt
mated. a jitfy.
There are ether changes in the styles of wo-
mems shoes this season. One fashionable
dealer called especial attention to the fact that
there is hone of the ornamental perforating
which has characterized the shoes of the last
two or three seasons. lie said that only the
cheap trade" perforates its shoes nowadays.
Therefore 1.-THE swell trade which has only
one way of asserting its sweetness. and that is
by being a little different. INDUCES in no frills
whatever. Everything is plainly stitched.
Ono Broadway firm showed some very ugly
round toed shoes. which were to be the
coming womcn's shoes. The twentieth CEN
tury firm. on the contrary. shows very
sharp points and saws that others will nos
sell at all. White shoes will not be worn
on tho street this sc ason. although white can-
vas tennis shoes are shown. The heel is what
1t slopes straight inward from the sole of the
inch and a half in height.
The makers OF the twentieth century shoe
shoes, instead of calf; They say that it can
be kept cleaner. cen be polished better. and
finp,' rs calf does; He said there were TWEEN
ty-thr"C shades of the Kid. SO that there
would be no difficulty about being pleased as
mother dealer, who has in his show win:
simply for the window. The Louis Quinze
seasons, In riding boots the patent leather
boot with straight English top is the ,proper
skin boots with spiked soIcs are shown, Low
shoes of patent leather, are fashionable. as
r tsen ilet h century int t W shoe t and f the ne% 6 Bic
boots, there are no extremes in women's foot
The ali around Summer girl will have a
pretty nm for shoes this season + che alls Gps
hSE s shoss' drir fT she sh sS%lid rId. nseT So Sts ws soif
e e T. s' tsnhis shoes shoes. and a"n i ! s9s shoes a"nFf Pong
papa! His lot rs payer Of bills will not be an
f fsetf s %ny g row sS" larger i need mot not max T HIM I'm.
happy. however. for one size costs about as
ma i. as snS.As ;Go, This X an ino rslsSIi g the ,s si1o tS OF
which out-of-door exercise is responsible. The
general tendency Of woman to emancipate her.
self from perpetual Information within four
walls or tho interior Of a carriage has put her
whole being on a broader basis, literally speak
ing. Whereas she used to 10 pe:ging around In
tiny shoes, ones. twOs. and threes. she now
steps easily along in fours, ttves, and skies. IT
may he that AT no distant date wOmen's feet
will he ''at SKIES and sevens," but at presens
the popular number is five.
II don't think there Is so much difference
In the actual Size OF the feet" said a dealer.
but women don't pinch their. feet rs they
did. They simply couldn't do 1t now. show
me q woman who will walk. ten miles a day
in shoes that pinch! She will either keep Off
her feet as much a. possible or she will wear .
comfortable shoe. The majority of them wisely
decide on the latter course"
The path of the chlropodist may not be
strewn with quite 80 much gold as of yore. but
no one will regret that unless 1t may DO the
Clliropodlst.
A Paris boOtmaker. who numbers several
queens among his customers, says that tho
women OF Madrid take the smallest shoes. lilo
nlsn snYs. what avery fnrcigncr MKrees TO, Tint