New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1900-01-28
STYLES ONCE WORN.


STYLES ONCE WORN
The fads and fancies that are displayed this year
IN slippers seemingly without end. Among
bedroom slippers there are mules Romeos. Vene-
tians and d'Orseys
Mules are to be found in every variety Of mate
rial and decoration. They appear In shades Of
suede and satin, embroidered in the same
trasting eolors Of silk and beadwork; In quilted
satins. and in ooze calf lined with eiderdown and
edged with beaver.
Among those purchased recently for wedding
trousseau TO match kimonos and dressing gowns
were four pairs of mules. One pair OF black
satin embroidered with gold beads edged around
the top with a band of ostrich feathers and
trimmed with gilt slide They lined with
yellow satin. Two other pairs were of brown and
pink quilted satin respectively, and both pairs had
cut steel slides. The fourth pair made of
white satin, embroidered with blue chenille and
steel beads, edged with blue velvet and lined with
blue
Venetans are found chiefly in black for elderly
women who prefer them because they be used
high up around the ankle or turned over and
worn like slipper. Romeos are superseded this
season by the mule among fashionable people, bur
their friends say that this is only temporary.
Fur, finished with minks head is a favorite
trimming for Romeos, which to be found in
kid felt and satin, the latter quilted or unquilted.
fancy of the season in fancy slippers is to
match heels and trimmings in color. Among the
trimmings are so well liked as cut steel
slides, although
hold their own. and gilt and oxidized silver set
with rhinestones rubies sapphires, emeralds and
garnets are popular English morocco in lavender.
light blue red and CUR color and English deer
skin in dove gray among the new materials
employed this season for serni-dress slippers.
There is some tendency TO return to the carved
or open work that was In vogue twenty-five
thirty years ago; but the custom of filing the
spaces or fretwork with gilt leather is fortunately
not revived.
PRETTY SCROLL DESIGNS
high cut slipper carved in a scroll design and
buttoning over the nstep. allowing the pretty silk
stocking to show through, is one Of the newest Of
these old timers Carriage boots in crushed velvet
and quilt satin in shades to match opera cloaks
are trimmed with fur. and many Of them are fin
ished with a minks head in the front. Babies
carriage boots made with quilted satin tops are
trimmed with swans down.
There is a general lament among women who
enjoy walking and also like to follow the fashions
that there is an unmistakable tendency to make
heels higher and toes narrower. Many Of these
women who use the ultra mannish shoe for walk
ing in some way best known to themselves manage
to use shoes Two sizes smaller than their walk
ing boots for dress occasions.
Foot clothing has never been sensible so
comfortable 5 It is made since the days when
the forefathers trod their native heaths and for
ests in bare feet their descendants wore sandals.
SHOE HISTORY.
The first shoemaker and his age unknown.
The first recorded mention of shoes Is found IN
Exodus when God said to Moses: Put on thy
shoes from off thy feet for the place wherein thou
standest is holy ground" This about 1900
B. c. PIucking off the shoe among the Jews
frmed a bargain. as did smoking the pipe Of peace
among the Indians, thumb licking among the
Scotch breaking straws among the Teutons,
shaking hands among the English and eating and
drinking among the Americans. When Jew re-
fused fulfil his compact the ofended party was
accustomed loosen his shoe and spit IN mis- race.
and his name was thereafter called in Israel the
house Of him that hath his shoe loosed.'
In a London collection OF historical SHOES there
is a clog sandal that came from Palestine, and is
said have been worn by a Samaritan high priest
The sandal was the earliest form OF foot cover
ing. and was secured to the foot by the early
Greeks with button or thongs between the hrst
The Ceits invented the buekskin shoe. which
admirably adapted TO travelling over stony noun
taips Every Celt was his own shoemaker
The Romans introduced the use or tanned leather.
The shoeless foot denotes serNitude in the East,
and it is the custom remove the shoe instead of
the hat when two people meet. Among the Ma
is. consequence, always left at the door OF the
mosque.
Wooden shoes are common among the poorer
classes in parts of Europe. The shoes made
by the Belgic Britons were made of raw cowhide
reaching TO the ankles. The hair was left on the
outside.
AS late as the time Of Charles I woren's walk
ing shoes made Of coarse leather and fast
eued with straps and buckles. In the fourteenth
century toes of shoes turned outward and OF
peculia~ form Vanity seems to have advanced
with civilization Coored shoes and narrow toes
prevailed before the fifteenth century ushered
in. During the fifteenth century toes assumed the
likeness OF q scorpions tail. and in turn grew to