The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1903-06-14

. Happen in the shoe shops these days and
you'll gee everybody you know buying shoes
FOR :he summer. / suppose the going-away
lie largely responsible. but It really looked
metrons, girls and children fairly ewarmed
round their favorite statesmen and demand
ed all sorts OF dainty things In shoe leather
FOR the summer campaign.
St. Louis IS essentially different from
every other city in the Union. believe.
when II comes to the purchase Of women's
things. Nearly every woman has her own
served by any one else. This Is particularly
true in the matter Of footgear. I spied two
young women seated IN q well-known chop.
both with books in their hands calmly read
ing until the clerk who always lifted them
came back from his luncheon. There were
others, but nobody but Mr.. Blank knew
their sizes and their preferences. So they
waited, and spontaneously. too. In any
other town but this those girls would have
taken the first salesman that came along
and hurried Off
You may deduce any argument that you
like from the above illustration. Whether
it speaks for our friendliness, our sense Of
Southern leisure. our conservatism. our pro-
vlncialsm. our exciusiveness. Is q matter OF
viewpoint.
But shoes-they are Of new and delightful
styles. calculated to disturb even the best
balanced feminine mind this season. First
let me disaouse your mind OF the idea that
you can buy a tan shoe. provided you have
seen somewhere that the tan shoe 70, par
excellence. the thing. You can't get them.
They are not for sale The girl who proudly
trips about this next month at the gardens
with Russia feathers on her feet either or
dered them especially made for her by
some Eastern manufacturer or else had them
sent as a gift from some shoe dealer
wholesale-n New England. Next summer
90 they tell me. the tan shoes for men and
women will be here for general wear. but
this summer only the exclusives will be able
to display them.
The styles are delightful and never pref
tier. Oxfords, OF course, are the staples for
general street wear. The Colonial-she of
the big buckles and ungainly tongue-are
passe. terribly SO. Chicago is wearing them
but that doesn't prove I'm fibbing does It?
The Du Barry style is new and pretty: but,
oh. so trying. Unless your feet are yom
strongest point, unless you've an instep so
high that you can refer TO 1t as an inherit
ance, don't, beg OF you, venture on the
Du Barry. Dozens Of girls in town have
tried. and almost wept and walled because
the stylish shoe would not go on, and when
Il would, looked bad.
Mrs. Dutheil Cabanne Is, so. far the only
woman whom I have known to wear the
shoe with any sort Of grace. and she can
wear goloshes and look like fairy even
then.
What are the earmarks. or footmarks.
rather. of this shoe now made famous by
Mrs. Carter and her play?
Well, this oxford has, first OF all. seam
right straight up the middle OF the foot,
over which the sides meet, and these are
held together with broad ribbon tied in a
bow. The heels are usually Louis, some
times Cuban. according to taste Dull kid
they call il mat kids the favored leath-
er. with patent vamps or not, as one pre-
fers. But the middle seam is the most vex-
atious thing. A long slim foot looks afro
cious in it, and IL you wear anything over
a.. don't even give the Du Barry a second
glance. Small and very pretty feet, with
high. arched instep may venture. but alb
solutely nothing else. Mrs. Bert Ball had on
pair the other day as We passed on the
Cabanne crossing. but. like Mrs. Cabanne,
her feet are exceptional.
Mrs. Daniel Alexander OGorman. who
was Mildred Bell. took several very smart
pairs of summer shoes East with her. They
will see European wear, however, before
they reach Broadway. And as everybody
says shoes for women bought on the other
side are terrible in fit ard make, she Is
wisely provident. One OF her pairs is the
huttoned oxford. with low French heel
and dull kid. This buttoned sort is quite
exclusive and very smart The soles are
slightly extended, IL one intends them for
street wear. Mrs. sylvester Judge. whose
5ootgear is always subject of envy among
her feminine friends, is wearing these but
toned oxfords. with pretty patent leather
yamps Miss Mabel Jones is another devotee
of the same shoe. Four small buttons
usually close the shoe.
What is known as the court tie" is very
Or, ISa,,fa NaQrlv av0rybndv
meets is wearing this sort, which Is higher
on the instep than last years oxford. also
higher in the back. The soft dull kid is the
preferred variety, and. of course, the broad
est silk ties that one can buy. After buying,
may add. comes a terrific struggle to get
the wide silk through the eyclet holes. Miss
Byrd Jourdan. Miss Bushman, Miss Julia
Cabanne. Mrs. Ohio Ball are a few who
have made this particular style their own
for the summer.
Slippers have their innings this season,
too. And beaded effects, so Mr.. Laughlin
tells me, are being sought by well-dressed
women. The low-cut slipper. with three
straps. is perhaps a greater favorite than
any other. Mrs. Blair wears this sort con-
dnually for dress occasions, hers always
made of patent leather. A high boot for
street purposes and a dainty patent slipper
for the house and all occasions when one
does not wear short skirt, Is Mrs. Blair's
3nvariable rule.
Mrs. A. c. Cassidy wears pretty slippers
always. This summer she has purchased
largely Of the soft dull-finished kid and has
adopted the same material for her oxfords
She will take East with her next month for
seaside wear pair Of high walking boots
in Russia, the only pair that I've known IN
town. besides 'nnumerable slippers of the
strapped kind. made of different dressy
kinds Of leather. and some of them beauti-
fully embroidered in beads. Mrs. John Ock-
erson. who has a charming little foot Is
wearing the Meredith oxford, which has n
very graceful cut, not so pronounced as the
Du Barry, with a ribbon bow on the instep
Let me tell you. en- PEASANT, startling bit
OF news: Pumps arc to be the rage next