The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1922-09-19

fourteen dollars roughly speaking.
Caliimanco says Alice Earle Moss
was WOODEN stuff Of fine gloss either
ribbed or plain" She differs with
Fairholt who says it was a glazed
linen staff. - The American author
ess is doubtless right noswithstand-
ing F'airhoit's $ usual correctness. Cal
finance shoes We're made n all co..
ors. The coloniSts were great on col
ors; then men as we shall see We're
equally partial to coiors in dress. In
1850 the toes Of the shoes were
pointed land the heels We're high
cross cut, common. court and wHrten-
burg" Fashion has always been
ficklc because it IS the product of a
thought or whim Of the mind, and
men are tickle, to say nothing OF
women. About the date Of the Rev
olution, when republican simplicity
began 20 be affected, heels were cut
very low. even no heels very fre-
quen1ly, and the style was saada!
shaped footwear, perhaps they al
fectea to pattern after the first Am
orleans and modelled their Shoes after
the Indian moccasin.
Gradually from the daSe of the
Revolution the fancy cloth shoes dis
appeared and We're replaced by cali
and kid-skin shoes. Shoe factories
had developed to such an extent
about the time America gained its in
dependence thai leather shoes were
made sufficiently ne,at and stylish 70
satisfy the demands of the most fas-
tidious. From colonial shoes preserV-
ed, and from all other available evi-
dence, It must be conceded that Ia
dies; shoes were always thinsoled.
The vanps Of shoes, in colonial times
were frequently fiowered and I'll wo-
men fashionably dressed wore silver
or gold buckles on their shoes. Ere
quently the buckles were replaced by
shoe-rose which / presume was a
rosette made Of ribbon and was ser
on top cf the vamp.
From an eye witness l am inform
ed that well dressed boys as late IS
1886 wore, ready made clothing, a
high velvet of silk sto-;k buckled
around their necks, linen shams
over the bosoms of their cotton
shirts to which could be attached lin
en-, or paper collars; and vide brim-
med hats made of palmleaves. They
usually wore high boots. The girls
dressed in white and colored cam
brics, fine calico and frequentl; silks.
Straw bonnets, evidently modelled af-
ter the old hood of colonial days.
trimmed inside and cut with roses
and laces, half encircling their faces.
On the arms of their dresses were
great puffs of feathers, set OF tac
upper arms about the elbows. Great
rolls of the same stuff were girdled
around their waists giving the effect
of hustle, inlparting to the maid in
full the erect Of the Grecian Bend.
They wore low-quartered shoes Of
calf or kid skin tied with broad silk
straps or ribbons on both sides OF
each foot, giving the impression tina.
they were wing-footed. The two ends
of these gaudy shoe laces were then
wound around the leg artfully an3
tied in bow just above the calf, OF
the leg so that they could not slip
down. This information I did not
get from my Old Hair Trunks but
from an eye witness Of how the
children of well-to-do Carolina fam
lilies dressed about 1886
Whatever else, therefore. or Old
Hair Trunks may yield us-and tae:c
contents give us much that would b
lost to history without tae1n--tacy
prove conclusivaly that cur colonial
mothers in the towns and cities, at