The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1917-09-15

Womans Boot Can Now Be Seven /
Inches TaII-Freakish Footwear |
ST. les of Paris do not Appeal TO
Americans - Fashion Sanctions
the Buttoned Boot for Autumn
Spats Have Continued Vogue.
No use to set ones heart on tall, |
military looking boots this season
as the little boy said about the
apple core: There amt goin' to be
none!" The United States govern
ment has definitely decreed the
height of feminine Footwear; and
the prescribed height is seven inches
that is, no feminine boot may be
more than seven inches tall; Of
course one may wear a lower boot
top If one pleases! But since oil the
new autumn boots are touching the
limit of the seven-inch permission,
the average woman will select that
height, to keep in step with fashion.
Now, fortunately, a seven-inch
boot is not so diminutive in stature
as it sounds. The measurement is
taken from the point where the heel
joins the sole to the top of the
upper" and given a two-inch Louis
heel, the seven-inch boot lacks no
effect of symmetry. Skirts are long
er too; so really there is no valid
reason for inches and inches of SUI
, perfiuous ot-top-especially as
Uncle Sam needs the material for
his soldier boys.
Button Style of Shoe Favored.
A seven-inch boot-top can carry
twelve or fourteen buttons-and
surely these will be plenty to give
foot and ankle a trim, graceful line!
The long, slightly receding instep
of the fashionable boot allows for
more buttons than the old-style
boot with short vamp coming high
er on the instep. And. incidentally,
| it is the buttoned shoe that has
fashions sanction for autumn wear
with everything but sport apparel.
A sport costume demands a rather
mannish shoe in laced style and
with low, broad heel 1t Is safe to
say that any boot with a Louis or
military heel should be buttoned, to-
be all that it should in correctness.
| Most of the new boots have cloth
| tops, and every woman who wants
| to help Uncle Sam clothe the SOL
diers adequately will admit a predil-
lection for cloth-topped footwear,
whatever she thought last season.
In line with the favor for cloth
Topped shoes is the vogue for spats.
| These comfortable end convenient
|
smoothly over thin-soled pumps
and give the foot such dainty,
| dressy appearance, will be just as
popular as ever this autumn and
winter-and most women will be
glad.
Paris Adores FaneifuI Footwear.
! It does amaze the American wom-
an-the French love for sensation
al and light opera sort OF foot COW
erings! Parisiennes envy American
women their slender and perfectly
clad feet, yet when they choose
| shoes for themselves, they always
| seem to select something gay and
fanciful. Gray suede boots with
very short vamps are the fashion in
Paris at this minute; and parti-col-
ored oxford ties with tips running
all the way up the toe to the lacings,
| No American woman with any pre-
! tensions to style in dress would
wear a short-vamp boot; or an OK
| ford made Of black and tan buck
skin with black satin ribbon ties.
over here, the smart street boot
| has a vamp OF dark leather and a
buttoned top of matching or light
cloth; and the ultra smart oxford
| is exceedingly mannish-with long,
| receding lines, low heel and pointed
| toe with perforated tip. This new
oxford, much in favor for sport
wear, and for street wear with man
nish tailored suits has blind eyelets
and leather laces.
| In masculine footwear there is
very little change in style; boots
and oxfords for fall have the very
long, receding line that makes the
foot slender and aristocratic. More
fabric tops will be seen this winter
than ever before and the dress boot
1 will have a buttoned top Of fine
black twill, beautifully fitting, the
ankle and instep. For rough weather
and for golf there are heavier boots,
suggesting the regulation army boot
worn with uniforms; but most mas
culine footwear, for town wear at
least, has a rather lightweight sole,
flexible and graceful rather than
stout and sturdy.
Boots fer the Riddles.
Whatever the little girl wears in
/ the way of boots, the small boy is
going to have q pair as nearly like
bona fide soldier boots as he can
get them-but that will be for play
wear only. Formal footwear for lit
tie folk Is Of the buttoned type, and
the buttoned top of cloth Is favored.
] For wear with strap slippers and