Evening star., 1923-03-25

| with a vertical bronze buckle. They
are step-in shoes with French heels
When bright red slippers are worn
white stockings, but the majority Of
women choose red.
| Plain white glazed slippers are
worn with evening clothes. They are
reminiscent of fashion not long ago
discarded. Why any one wants to
wear them with an evening gown is a
| question too hard to answer. They
| are as stiff and unyielding as glace
glove. They ruin the appearance
Of foot as glace glove spoils an
arm.
The modern woman does not wear
| a number one shoe. Her grand
mother did for some reason that no
one has been able TO explain. Just as
she could breathe in a seventeen
inch waist while we require thirty
inches for health and exercise.
The average size of shoes in
America is number five, and vast
number of women wear number
seven. Anything over = number
three looks awkward in a white
glazed kid slipper, but II the fashion
grows for 1t women will wear it.
They can make the foot look a bit
shorter and less clumsy by a heel
Of green, OF blue, OF red
Clcred glazed kid slippers are not
as awkward as white ones In dark
blue and IN Jade green they are
stockings that carry out the color.
One should have a small foot and
! a smaller ankle to put shoes and
stockings together that do not match
| in color. The French do not mind
this trick. for they are accustomed
10 their straight uncurved legs with
thick ankles and broad feet. Pos
| sfbly the French have the usliest
feet and ankles Of any race in the
| world, and the Americans have the
best. Therefore they are proud Of
them and try not to make mistakes
in the assembling of shoes and stock
| ings.
T>HE American ankle is usually %
l. slim that 1t can stand q stocking of
| one color against a shoe Of another.
That Is why the fashion for nude
| and taupe stockings with black
| shoes has continued without inter-
| ruption for two years in this country.
II the colored kid clipper gains
| complete dominance over the black
| one, it is possible that the nude
stocking will be shelved. Certainly
1T will not go with purple, orange,
green and red slippers
The elaborate italian patterning
of leather in the middle OF the shoe
will continue. In fact It will be
emphasized. There are black satin
afternoon slippers which have the
entire middle part done in an open
work OF gold cloth. There IL q pair
OF apple green kid slippers In which
J only the heel and the vamp are solid;
the rest is cut into latticed openings
| The fanciful treatment Of the in
step is accentuated. 1t gives q chance
| for one to wear a step-in shoe without
| awkwardness. There are new Oxford
ties in which the entire instep is cut
away and the sides laced together in
| the Roman fashion with colored rib
bons. One pair Of mauve kid oxfords
is laced with mauve satin ribbon wound
over steel buttons.
Tho plain slipper is dead. II a woman
wants to be conspicuous and, fnciden-
tally, show her foot to the best ad-
vantage, let her choose a plain satin
slipper without ornament. II It is Gin
namon brown and the stockings above
it are nude she will find herself far
from the commonplace and realize that
| her feet look their best.
II she runs with the herd, IL she
does what others do, she will wear the
/ ornate slipper with an immense buckle
or q pointed tongue reminiscent Of the
renaissance.
The buckle came into the limelight
Hast summer by shifting its position on