Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1902-11-22
STYLES IN FOoTGEAR.
For Evening Wear Much Ornamental
ton is in Vogue.

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From the New York Tribune
With its exaggerated high heel, its much
arched instep, It's embroidery, beading or
flower decorations, the satin Du Barry shoe,
whether high or low, is what might be
called the acme of the frivolous in footgcar.
Yet in spite of this 1t is the favorlte of the
season.
Pink IS a popular color in shoes md Slip
pers- The whole shoe Is sometimes made
Of richly brocaded silk in pink, or some
times It Is Of white. black or pale tinted
silk or satin. with flowers embroidered or
painted upon 1t. Any girl with taste for
painting can buy a plain shoe at compare
lively small cost and paint the toe heel and
sides and tongue or straps to suit herself.
Slippers are prettily finished with satin
roses or chiffon rosettes, as well as with
perky bows of velvet which stand up in
points like butterfly wings. Dainty but
terfiy wings formed of gauze and spargles
or lace and spangles are also employed,
and these are easily made at home. Buckles,
too, are used upon these pretty slippers,
and in Jewels range from cut steel to rhine
stones, while in gold or silver monograms
appear upon both plain and fancy slippers
and low shoes. These are no doubt intend
ed to be worn with the stockings which
have monograms embroidered upon the
sides.
Black satin high and low shoes are so
much IN vogue that they Will be worn upon
many occasions formerly relegated to the
patent leather. Covered with lace applique,
they are charming with the numberless
combinations of black and white which are
SO popular now. All the pastel shades in
which slippers are made look well with lace
coverings or appliqueS, and 1t Is scarcely
needful to say that next to black and black
and white the all-white lace and satin slip
per is the thing in point Of style.
Feathers so much in vogue this win
ter that one Of the daintiest fancies is to
have pink or blue slippers bordered with
white ostrich. marabout or fancy feathers
in sort of roll. This feather ornamental
ton Of the evening slipper is intended to
match the fan dress trimming and feather
boa which form part Of so many evening
costumes.
For carriage wear, high velvet shoes in
orange yellow and warm red are quite the
thing. These are high and warm and are
bordered around the top and along the open
side with dark fur or feathers.
An odd but pretty shoe, which shows how
combinations of materials will be employed
in the winter styles, is of green satin, with
green satin heel. Above the satin is let
in side strip of patent leather, which, in
turn, is bordered about the top with the
green satin. The vamp is low, to snow the
side ornamentation which is now fad upon
silk hose.
Bead embroidery Is such a fad that 1t is
not only used upon satin and silk but upon
leather shoes. Pearl and gold and silver
colored beads are the usual sorts employed,
but let is still more popular, anu steel Is
used both alone and mixed with other beads.
Beads are even worked in dainty patterns
on the little straps that are so much worn,
and upon the shoes which have open designs
cut In the leather up the arch of the in
step and which button at the side with
fancy buttons.
Leather treated in the openwork style
looks like embroidery, and other shoes have
stitched effects made with rows OF stitching
in q contrasting color.
Happily for dancers, the slippers that they
wear do not have as abnormally high heels
as do all the other styles of dress shoes,
although the dancing heels would have been
considered very high year or so ago. In
dancing slippers, as well as in other sorts,
a pretty and sensible style Is the cross
strap These straps are embroidered or
beaded. The three strap four strap and two
strap low shoes are smart, and the number
of little straps climbs right up the foot to
as great a height as the wearer desires.
They are fastened with buttons at the side
or with buckles in the middle.
IT is the proper thing to have slipper
pieces made to match the gown with which
the slipper is to be worn, and as many or
iental STYLES of materials and trimmings
will be used slipper pieces are embroidered
TO correspond, and may be purchased all
ready to make up.
In general form shoes have prettier toe
this wear than they have had for some time.
These toes are neither too pointed nor too
round but are more like the shape Of the
foot as it is possessed, in spite OF changes
Of style in footwear these many decades.
Insteps, too, have changed. They are re-
markedly high.
For walking shoes soles appear in heavier
and more sensible weights and box calf is
popular. Dull leather in high shoes and
Vanished leather in slippers are styles of
the season, and the patent leather shoe APP
pears among the rest like an old standby.
Riding boots are deliberately stitched and
trimmed with ornamental work in applied
strips of stitched leather, and even with
colored embroidery. but patent leather rid
ing boots are considered the proper thing