The sun., 1901-08-04
CHANGED STYLES N SHOES,
" DOUBLE DECkERS" TIRE Lar.
EST THING ~ WOWiN'S WEAR

"DOUBLE DECkERS" THE Lar.
EST THING ~ WONANS WEAR.
II II . Formidable and lncOuth.L LookIns
Product. bot Wears Like Iron -Tbs
Different Makes Of Shoes Popu.
lar In Different Parts Of the Country.
Double deckers.' are the latest thing in
women's shoes. They are trihe smaller
than canalboat and weigh little less than
ton. The Chicago girl dotes on them,
the New York girl takes to them but mildly,
while the San Francisco girl would almost
rather wear a CONN than a double decker
The style is what the dealers call fad
style. Il has double projecting sole,
enormously thick. The lower deck is
good three-quarters Of an inch wide The
upper Is quarter OF an inch in width and
In rope-stitched to the lower deck The
extension runs round the shoe. heel and all
With this formidable sole goes an upper
which is equally startling. low double
punched toe and a trimming Of the same
style extending entirely around the shoe
The eyelets are huge brass ones. Altogether
u is shoe about as graceful as an elephants
hoof.
A shoe salesman, who goes all over the
country was showing his set Of samples
the other day to layman. He lifted the
That's the sort OF shoe that makes tho
manufacturers want TO lie down and die
he said. -Of course, that's an extreme.
but look at all the rest OF these heavy shoes
for women. II II wasn't for the extreme
West and the South we might as well give
up the ghost, Now, here's the shoe that
women used TO wear before they took IL
into their heads that they'd wear arnored
cruisers on their feet.
He picked up kid shoe whose upper
was as soft as kid glove and rolled the
sole up AZ II II had been card
Nov there's a shoe that there was money
in" he said. That's what We call a turned
side out and then turned over, There's
no insoe. That was a shoe that wore
out!' admiringly. The upper always
| tipped loose from the sole. Always did.
| The woman took II to the shoemaker and
had 1t sewed up and the next week it ripped
on In another place. But what can you
expect Of a shoe like that'' holding ths
double decker at arms length and regard
ing 1t with deep disgust.
Those things simply wont wear out.
| Why, We used to sell at least two pairs Of
| light, turned shoes where we sell one pair
Of heavy shoes now. II women had given
! the turned shoes the hard wear they give
these new w'fangled ones we'd have sold
twice a. many as We did. That double
decker goes Il q little too hard though.
II wont Be- q good seller except in Chicago.
They're great on fads out there.
THAT old gag about the Chicago girls big
feet isn't true, by the way. The Lord
doesn't make special size Of feet for Chi
cago The shoe clerks out there do the best
they can in that line, though. They have
a special way Of fitting out West. Their
idea il to have a woman wear very long
| shoe, 30 that it makes her foot look slender.
| Out in Sioux City | saw a clerk fittinga
woman. and he gave her a No. when
she ought 10 have worn a No. !.
Boston women wear these big, heavy
shoes too The uglier a shoe is the better
| 1t takes in Boston. / suppose that's be-
| cause they have New England consciences
| up there. They can't reconcile themselves
| TO seeing their feet look trim and pretty.
| l can tell you just what cities in the country
will buy any shoe you show me. Here,
| for instance, is Philadelphia seller That's
| a good shoe: heavy, we'll made. thick sole.
| broad toe, but not extreme in any OF these
! points At the same time the toe Is broader
and sQuarer than the shoes which sell best
in New York.
Here's what we call a freak toe The
shoe has an absolutely straight line on
! the inside. then sheers OF suddenly on tho
outside, 80 that the point Of the toe is right
at the inside corner Of the shoe. Instead
| Of q round toe there is simply corner.
That shoe sells best In Chicago.
Down South the girls are just beginning
to get over the notions their grandmothers
had about footwear. They've ALWAYS worn
just as short shoe as they could scroOge
their feet into. That made their ns'ep
hump up and as a consequence there hai
TO be a special style of shoe made for tho
South. ] know a Southern woman who
is S feet inches tall and who wears :? .
shoe Proud2 She is a. proud as pea
cock. but knowa chiropodist who treats
her feet and he says
The shoeman made an expressive ges-
ture. Then he picked up two shoes.
These are the hest New YORK sellers
he said. This one is a lightweight XII
shoe, with patent leather tip, flexible
sole and what called a medium toe. THIS
other is heavier and has larger toe but
is not freak. One is a dress shoe. tho
patent leather il the best selling shoe IN
| New York to-day. more's the pity tor
the feet that wear the shoes. Here's a
new thing: looks like patent leather. hut
10 more flexible and porous and Is gIaran-
teed not TO crack. That 3 ideal kid
What struck the tan shoe this spring
asked the layman; II dropped out of FASH
ion all Of sudden?'
Didn't it. though" said the shoemsn
| with q shrewd smile. But what would
you do II your customers were pretty well
loaded up in certain line and you knew
you couldn't get much of an order from
themi You'd start a new fashion. wouldn
you, so that they'd have To buy? There
are tricks, a. you may have heard, in all
trades I'm thin king, though. that II wont
be an easy trick for US 10 get women to stop
! buying these heavy shoes that they ~
taken such a notion TO. Anybody that u
call on that fashion will earn the heartfelt
gratitude Of the shoemakers, you may he
sure Of that We've done what we can for
ourselves though. Look at this heel That 4
the very latest thing and is called ihs Cuban
Looks like a sugar loaf with the top bitten
on and then turned upside down, doesn t
it' Folks'll get tired Of thai heel ever Y
their shoes wont wear out and so we may
he able 10 do a little business here snd
there and keep out Of the poorhouse
Then the prosperous looking shoeman