Waterbury Democrat., 1902-12-05

the women, is becoming a thing Of thu
past. AS to the heels Of the shoes
the majority of women prefer the mil
itary style. This is of medium
height, shaped somewhat in the form
of square. The common sense heel
which is low and broas, is used very
much by elderly women. The Cuban
heel. which is higher than the Military
lis liked by a large number Of people
What is looked upon as an extreme
style by many persons is the French
heel, which is higher than the military,
cayed and sets far in under the shank
of the foot. After a woman has be
come accustomed to walking with
these shoes she ought to- be able to
stand on her toes very well. Patent
feathers are a great attraction with q
certain class of women who would moi
buy pair Of shoes unless they were
made Of patent kid, or patent colt OF
patent calf. The patent colt gives the
best of satisfaction.
Women pay higher price for shoes
now than formerly. If pair Of shoes
suits them, they are willing TO pay any
reasonable price. The average prices
paid for pair of shoes by women Is
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whose shoes cost them much more than
these amounts but as said before
those are the average prices.
AS stated in the first part of this
article a women is very particular in
| selecting her footwear. She has her
whims and her fancies. IA dealer once
remarked to the writer in reply to
lquestion that it was almost impossible
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have to suit not only the taste Of the
buyer but also the taste Of five or six
companions. This is generally the
case with school girls, clerk in one
Of the local shoe stores was once heard
| to say that it was easy to suit a woman
! if you understand her. eff she sees
that you are misunderstanding
tired and sullen. she in turn becomes
rather disagreeable and it is almost i'm
possible to make sale. But IL you
don't allow your temper to become ruff
fed or your disposition to grow cold
or disagreeable and if she sees that she
cannot get the better of you, she will
4 be very nice and a sale is readily made.
WHY woman is so hard to suit is
due to the fear that the dealer may
sell her a shoe larger than she thinks
size nePuS. Sne enters the store fully
in1bued with the idea that she can
wear 3. The minute she strips her
foot the dealer often sees that a larger
size shoe is needed. But the woman
is persistent. She wants that size,
even if it does cramp her foot. The
result is that the side of the shoe
bursts after few weeks wear and the
woman says that the shoe IS no good.
She does not consider that the shoe
was always too small for her foot.
Any dealer will tell YOU that a shoe
that is large enough for the foot will
retain its shape much longer than a
shoe that is too tight and pinhes. The
tight shoe loses its own shape and
takes the shape of the foot. In order
, to do away with this trouble in suitine
woman, new system Of marking
the shoes is now used. 1t is known
I as the French system. woman can
90 into a store and call for n size 3D..
The clerk hands her a size AID which
is marked by the French system,
which Us not understood by the buyer
1t fits her foot perfectly and she buys
it at once, whereas if she knew that
it was a size larger than she asked for
she would not buy it. Such is the pc
. culiarity of a woman.