The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1905-02-10
AMERICAN GIRLS FOOTWEAR.

tnat dress the feet as prettlly as Amer
lean girls do. III fact. no women who
have such pretty feet to dress.
Spanish women have Tiny feet. but
they are too short and broad for real
beauty. And French women. by some
8 mysterious process, always wear small
shoes, no matter what size foot they
- have.
But the foot of the American girl
which is as famous as her wit and
IA beauty, is always small enough to en-
N actly suit her slender, thoroughbred
Ri build, is exqusitely modelled, rarely
~ Nowadays pinched, and dressed with
4 the utmost taste, appropriately for
A every occasion.
1t was this side of the Atlantic that
Il women started the fad for the stout
mannish cut of shoe for street and
II country sports. and it took the Amer
III Jean girl to first refuse to play tennis
q IN French heels.
4 This does not mean that English
Il girls have not worn big calf skin shoes
IA always a lot, and frequently inappro-
81 priately. Every one knows the British
Il girls propensity the reverse OF
4 the French-for wearing shoes that
81 make her feet look large even if they
III chance to be small. But their stout
n boots are coarse in texture and COM
mon in cut while though the Amer
a lean girl uses for heavy wear heavy
4 boots, they are of the smartest cut,
M thu HovihIo n tnrial MI Will
never tight always fitted to perfection,
comfortable over the joint and snug
& up under the instep.
For a while she did make it little
bit of a fad to accentuate the man
q nishness of her boots her soles were
uselessly wide and thick, but even
Il then carefully fitted and most swag-
ger in cut and finish. But this sea-
4 son her street boots are just heavy
enough for protection, no useless
weight, and as perfect in make as her
dancing slipper.
Her outdoor shoes, high and low. are
y of calfskin, softly dressed, or of
dongola kid, or a dull-fnish leather.
For nice street wear. shoes are a little
more pointed at the toe and with Gu
ban heels, OF patent or enameled
leather
For home wear, for afternoon re-
ceptions, for evening, shoes may this
year match the costume. and for
dancing they must. White and pink
and yellow suede or dull kid for dane
ing slippers, or lace over satin, or
painted satin are best form.
With many varieties of brown cos
tunes, bronze shoes are extremely
good style, and so are brown suede, al
ways with stockings to exactly match.
OF course you can be very we'll
dressed by adhering to patent leather
for all daytime dress occasions, but
for evening a black or bronze slipper
would be inartistic dressing; and
white, though it can be worn with
tinted frocks, is only best style with
white.
But quite as important as shoes to
match gowns are the stockings to
match shoes, and there has never been
IA season when such an infinite va
riety Of colored stockings were to be
seen in the shops.
Browns in every possible shade of
onion-skin, mahogany and docque de
roche tones; blues and puppies; reds,
light and dark and in all strawberry,
pond lily and watermelon tints, and
yellows, pale and oranges.
And newest of all, shaded stockings,
white at the hem and deep-toned a
the toe, and every shade of one color
in between; not bit good taste, but
nevertheless with some popularity.
The open-work stocking that was
entirely crowded out by the gauze-
mesh stocking last year, is coming in
again this winter, the open-work show
ing elaborate lace designs and fire.
quently inset with lace.
1t is still smart, though eccentric
to have a monogram on the left in |
step. And just at this season of out |
door sports college girls and school
girls frequently embroider the flag of |
their brothers college on the instep
of a silk stocking. Or a sweetheart's |
initials in his college colors adorn a
silk instep.
And all this colored silk embroidery
.on stockings, and also the craze for
co1ored hosiery, brings up the torment
ing question of laundering without
losing color or lustre. The ordinary
process of boiling and rubbing means
ruined hosiery of the delicate sort.
Indeed so heavy can the loss be from
careless washing of fine stockings,
that a great many girl do up their
own, just as they do their laces and
table embroideries. Their plan is to
use warm water made soft with borax
and soapy with CASTLE soap. First
they soak the stockings for half an
hour in cold nnrav water four ton