The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1903-04-19
A FORM OF FEMININE MADNESS
THE BARGAIN HUNT As PURSUED
IN THE MATTER OF SHOES.
Lottery Of the Sample shoe Store-You
May Set Out 10 Get Sensible Walking
Shoes and Come Home with Opera
Slippers--Feninine Character Revealed


Form any Of the bad habits you choose
rather than that OF purchasing sample
shoes. said the tired woman shopper as
she came in after busy day. i've been
out since II this morning and it's now S in
| the afternoon.
You might imagine that had accom-
| piisned something in the way OF shopping
but not a bit Of it. / have managed to buy
Just two pairs OF shoes But they are not
like other shCes--they are san pie shoes
San pie shoes are the sort you think
you get Tor half price because the salesman
tells you so. Sometimes you do get an
unusually good article and sometin es you
get something very bad It's considerable
Tor which you get the shoes you always
pay well Tor Them Ia the time you spend
getting them, ard the general irritation
OF having offered TO you all sorts OF queer
shoes that you don't want.
How do you become a victim to the
sample shoe habit? Some day woman
friend will display pair OF unusually sn art
boots or ties ana will tell you that they are
Swell,m's regular seven-flty boots, but
that she got them at the sample shoe store
for three-fiity.
This fires you with an unholy ambition.
You reflect that you have been paying
i've or six dollars for shoes that are not
one-half so good so lar as appearance goes,
and you make up your mind to visit the
woLueriul sample shoe shop.
You ind II place OF many windows,
attractively deckcd with boots and shoes.
Nhen you get To know the place you will
lie aware that while you may be lured into
the shop by some wonderfully effective
boot Ia the window, IL doesn't at all follow
that you can get il inside.
Sample shoe shops by their lots from
various makers, at sales and otherwise,
and they never have full lines of sizes
This is where the irritation Of buying from
them comes in.
-rney will show you a patent leather,
SIX I'm d. Cuban heeied boot that Is per-
lection as to its shape, and only So for a
pair, but they have IL only in number eigats,
T. width.
'rnea a jaunty dull kid tie will be dis
played with stunning satin bow over the
instep which can he bought for two-sixty-
nve-When you can tell at glance that il
II IL six dollar shoe, but alass-It can only be
had in treble width, size one-and "A half.
Inc shoes That will mt you are very apt TO
be queer arrangements In style or stitching.
odd lasts and snop-worn looking boots.
You may set out to buy pair Of strong
sensible walking shoes and come home
with pair of BLACK velvet opera slippers
with a little tul.e rosette, for while they
can't give you the Walking boot. for the
reason that they haven't your size, they
have the velvet slipper in your size and it il
a beauty and bargain.
You put the velvet slippers in a con-
splcuous place In your bedroom, wear
them about the house and 20 about in old
walking shoes. So IL is a demoralizing
place, for they never let you get away
without selling you something-not what
you want. but something that fits you.
The trade is 30 heavy in the sample
shoe shop that the shoes themselves are
Kept in some upper store-room. and when a
goes To get you pair Of shoes or
. hunt for the shoe you may describe he is
likely to be gone half an hour.
But first, he anchors you to your chair
oy taking of one Of your shoes. You can't
'ery well escape gracefully in one shoe and
,ne stocking foot, 40 you sit and see other
women waiting In one shoe and one stock
ng foot for other statesmen who are on a !
till hunt for something that will fit their
customers.
when the salesman returns he will
ring you sonnet ming that he recommends, |
md while II isn't what you asked him for, |
10 dilates on it's excellence 40 effectively,
hat you allow him TO put Il on your foot
you decide that II won't do and ask him
gain for your original need In the boot
nd shoe line. and he disappears again
nd this means another half hour and
mother novelty for your inspection st the
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