The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-10-16
NITA'S NEW YORK FASHIONS
Style and Sense in Shoes-Some, Fool isR Fads-Better Care for
 Your Feet

If you want to create a, sensation
 wear jeweIled heels on your shoes.
 This doesn't mean that the jewels
 must be simon pure stones. Neverthe-
 less they can twinkle and dazzle as
 my lady steps from her limousine just
 as though they were the real thing.
 cal tendency in the use of the jeweled heel The expense that the novelty entails will make it prohibitive to the
 woman who is running around lock
 metal kid and patent leather and
 doesn't care for anything better
 I, myself. wouldn't grow crazy over
 this new idea in footwear. But it
 appeals in the same way that the
 tulIe wings on evening gowns did for
 a season, because the erstwhile spec taculaT Alice Roosevelt, now Mrs.
 Nicholas Longworth, originated both
 styles
 do love nice shoes. and without
 aany local vanity. I wish to say that no city in the world can show women
 with daintier shod feet than New York.
 abhor the curious Ioafer who sta tions himself on popular corner on
 Q rainy day, for the mere purpose of
 appraising the footwear of the fem
 aormation in the wrong way But
 there is education in symmetry
 and taste in the shoes worn by the up to date New York woman. The fad of short skirts snakes de- cent shoes a necessity Many years ago when was doing dramatic work as one of my first essays in jour naliS1n, I was sent to interview Laura
 Joyce Bell. the brilliant wife of Dig by Bell.
 She was a remarkably lovely wo man. gifted to a suruprassing degree in dramatic boise But she always assumued parts that her pulchritude average chorus girl would resent. as an insult to her physical charm. ]. On asking her why she always es- saved suuch roles as Katisha in the MikadO for instance, she said, Its because I can wear easy shoes. If you will note I never appear the stage in any gown that necessitates height over the third button l can't act and be uncomfortable. While 1 I cannot cure pain in my head with out consulting physician, can init igate foot troubles by wearing shoes that perhaps may not fit me, but at least are comfortable.'
 This, then, was the secret of the long gown, and when I see the point ed toe. the high heel, and in fact the generally scamped contours of the a,v- craze shoe, I think this actress was I did not set out to write an article ] that might be construed as high heel, the pointed toe. the too narrow vamp, in touuch and along parallel lines with the women of the Orient, whose feet are compressed through physi- selves to the absurdly small sandals considered the mark of feminine arts- tocracy in China and Japan. Now just a Word-a woman's word which means about forty Don't wear shoes that pinch. Don't unless
 you've got lots of money, go in for are both in horribly bad taste. Don't buy white shoes unless you have about steenteen other pairs, and these are only for use with white frocks, indoors and out.
 Do buy sensible leather shoes, or combination But cloth, l want to warn you, gets horribly dusty. l Remember your income in select ing your shoes. Be as particuluar in the choice of your shoes as you are of gowns You most certainly don't want to be classified as the wo. man with the dirty white shoes, any more than as the woman in the same old red gown NITA.