The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1905-02-18
FASHION NOTES.

Nothing so proclaims the gentle
woman as daintiness and freshness in
the details of her toilet, and prominent
among these must come her footwear.
| individuality may be shown in shoes as
we'll as dress and no higher praise need
woman crave for her personal APP
pearance than that her feet are always
neatly and tastefully dressed.
The greatest license may be allowed
in the selection of slippers and house
SHOES. Here may be used all the novel
| ties that the shoemaker's fancy can
conceive, but in the opinion of some the
woman who wears fancy or cOlored
shoes on the street sins against good
taste. Tan for summer wear and shoes
to match the gown, if in a carriage, are
perfectly permissible, but champagne
colored ties on the street or patent
leather vamps with light uppers worn
to church may be considered a crime.
Far and away the best shoes for
street wear for general use are the
lightweight calfskin, neither too thin
nor too heavy, as it does not get shah
by nearly so quickly as the softer kid,
and being laced up gives q certain elias
ITCHY to the shoe in walking.
Very few feet require a wide shank.
so few. in fact, that it is a wonder that
any are made with it, and yet all the
so-called health shoes make a point of
having the widest possible shanks.
The chief support required of a shoe
is for the arch under the instep. There
is where all the weight of the BODY
comes and where the shoe should fit
the foot perfectly
Hundreds who think there is no other
shoe than the fiat-heeled wonder why
their feet ache, and they are tired after
walking. never dreaming that slowly
but surely they are breaking down the
arch of the foot by wearing unsuitable
Shoes and that some day they will find
themselves suffering from what is
called foot, the only relief from which
is found in a steel brace insole.
To insure perfect support for this
arch one should be certain that there
is no extra fulness in the leather be
tween it and the heel. Just in that
spot the shoe must fit most snugly, and
it is here that is the test of whether a
shoe fits or not
Only narrow shank will give this
desired close fit at this spot, and
whether one prefers a high or a low
heel it is the most important thing in
buying shoe to be sure that the shank
is narrow enough.
A moderate military heel is to be
preferred to either the very low or the
extreme high. 1t is more graceful than
the low and in better taste than the
very high. Nothing could be less ap
propriate for street wear than these ex-
trenle heels, which should be used only
for slippers and dress shoes.
The actual present discomfort of such
heels in walking is very great, but,
though it is denying the truth of a
time honored belief, it may be safely
stated that injury from them is not
nearly so much TO be feared as that
from heel too low. In the latter the
harm done is deep seated, and affects
the bony structure, whereas the for
mer results only in corns, bunions and
ingrowing nails-not to mention the
effect upon dispositions
which, while not exactly to be desired,
do not injure the general health seri-
ously:
1t gives the necessary support to the
instep and at the same time has sur
face sufficiently large to give a firm
footing. The greatest objection to
the Louis XIV heel, other than its eX-
IRENE height, is in the curve that |
brings the heel too far under the foot |
and leaves the bone of the leg without |
proper support. Because of this the !
foot presses forward and crowds the |
toes into the vamp, no matter how |
long the shoe.