The Calhoun chronicle. [volume] (Grantsville, W. Va.) 1883-1984, 1923-02-22
Many New Fads
in Fancy Shoes

Shoes are growing more and more
interesting. And-a point that cannot
be too lightly passed by-they are
being cut so that they are more COM
Portable than they used to be. You
see. writes "a fashion correspondent in
the New York Times, they are doing
so many of them In kid-soft, pliablc
kid-that Is easy to wear and pretty
to look at.
great secret about the develop
ment OF these shoes Is that, as the
skirts grow longer and our stockings
become less and less conspicuous, why
then the attention naturally centers
upon the shoes. And, for that reason,
they Immediately lose all OF their re-
firing habits and shine out In new
styles and designs. At some of the
smart shoe shops they are making a
great speciality Of building shoes to
order. Not alone to make them COM
Portable, but to follow out the designs
or costumers who are now sending
sketches to shoemakers I'm order that
the shoes worn by their patrons will
harmonic with the gowns In every
particular.
These shoes are rather stubby as to
toes, but they are provided with more
or less stitching and Sitting; ribbon
bows and ribbon lacings. not to men
ton the buckles, which vary all the
way from button size to those that
fairly cover up the whole forward Dor.
ton Of the shoe. The news from Paris
Is that, by summer time, we will be
wearing high shoes-very high shoes.
But 1t Is so new a revelation to Amer
lean women accustomed to low boots
for many years that II Is hard to WIS.,
ualize ourselves going about In any
thing that reaches higher than the
ankle.
Al any rate, 1t is true that this win
ter the party shoes, and those worn
with even the more formal street
clothes, have been some of the most
interesting points Of the various cos
tunes. They must now be reckoned
as parts of the dresses, for they are
chosen to fit In with the general
scheme just as certainly as are ones
hats or gloves. or even ones wraps.
The newer and more fancified boots
that are coming over from Paris are
characterful in the extreme, and they
carry out the feeling for period styles
with which the fashions of the season
have been so generously dotted The
more elaborate ones pull on Just as
the old-fashioned boots used to do.
and by means Of fancy little bits of
rubber inserted In their sides they
manage to hide the fact, when adj
juSted, that they ever were known to
stretch or pull out of their set shapes.
The buckled slippers are only an illus
tration of how far these ornamental
lions are going. These slippers hap
pen to be of patent leather with the
buckle trimming made of the same
leather, but there are suede ones and
kid ones made after the same manner
and with buckles ranging all the way
from leather to diamonds, with silver
and steel and copper I'm between.
Stockings of Silk and Wool.
For these new and fanciful shoes, OF
course, there are new and beautiful
stockings. Some of them are embrOid-
cred on the finest and laciest of back
grounds, and some of them are exqui-
sitely plain, but for evening they all
seem to be made of gOssamer stuffs
so that when they are worn they set
one to wondering whether there are
really any stockings there at all. Theu
there are fine Isle hose, which some
women like better than they do the
silk ones In certain instances they
are more comfortable to wear and
easier on the feet, and with the length
of skirts as it is we need no longer
think of that silky look that is going
to be displayed for so many, many
inches.
American women will forever cling
to and like the wooden stockings, espe-