The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-04-17

and mitering of the silk should be
most becoming to women of short
stature.
You've heard each foot of London
Was wondrous sight to see
And that's exactly what each foot
| OF London used to be.
But things have greatly changed, my dear,
And now smart women wear
| Shoes almost like Americans,
Some feat you will declare!
/ Now that New York has stepped
right foot foremost and landed with
both feet in the English style boot,
London has Topped about into our
shoes and there you are.
Remembering the amazing. amount
of surface covered by the English
woman's foot in her erstwhi1e long
Vamped narrow lasted British boot
you are constrained to wonder where
| it's all gone to in the. short vamp high
heeled effect she is now wearing For
she has now certainly gone from one
extreme to another in Quitting her
extremities and no vamp is now quite
short enough to suit her wh1mSy- In
fact, the real shoe of the moment in
London smacks by our genus cory
phee. However, all tourists admit it
is a vast improvement and that femi-
nine London by changing it's boots
has changed every foot of the land
scape.
on every hand one sees American
tiers appropriately a foot high. One
of the enthusiastically American
conceits offered in all seriousness is a
low shoe of buckskin, either white,
grey or tan, with a wide flap of
fringed buckskin falling down over the
instep in true moccasin style. This,
no doubt, would have made a great
hit with an original aboriginal belle.
but no true maid in America today
would be found dead in them.
The war is on England but every
thing else seems to be off at night
anyway, even the lights. Such eX-
treme decollette even hardened New
Workers feel obliged to favor with
more than a fleeing glance. There
seems to be penchant for single
strand of jet or pearls (not even to
mind you) precariously sustaining an
alleged bodice Clinging robes of jew
eled and jetted net still jealousy hang
on to the fashionable fair ones and
as yet the full skirted models are
glimpsed but rarely. When it comes
terial however, the London bellies are
far outStripping us.
Coiffures for evening are elaborate
affairs twined with pearls, banded
with ribbons or bristling with aigrettes.
The fish hook curl or beau catcher
in front of each rosy ear is still very
good over here, and the peeled eff
fects, now so prevalent in our Ameri-
can ml0St arent getting ahead here
at all.
English peroxide is twenty volumes
where the American brands are only
ten. You can readily understand the
necessity of double strength as you
glimpse the predominance of bottle
blondes Those are various also who
have hooked upon the henna when it
is red.
A novel fad of fastening rope of
pearls or any sort of jeweled necklace
nigh up in the back of the hair in the
spot usually sacred to the barette and
then letting it drop down in front
from behind the ears has a quaint
and oriental effect that is vastly be-
coming to some types and with some
toilettes.
Naturally for street costumes the
military effects hold first place and
especially in millinery are these ideas
used in all and every shape and man
ner.
As if to mock and laugh to scorn.
the omnipresent SCOT and CRIME of
London, tiny pure white turban of
straw and silk either wing or flower
trimmed, but always spotless in its
cleaning snowiness. is on every well
dressed head 1t Is especially attrac-
tive when worn in conjunction with
white fox furs, to which the English
women wisely cling these chill damp
days of spring.
And speaking of London smoke
everything and every day has the
habit. Even DIR. Pease might be APP
peased by the many dainty and in