U.S. FASHION DICTATES.

Auckland Star, Volume LIV, Issue 48, 26 February 1923, Page 3

U.S. FASHION DICTATES.

SANDALS VANISH. (From Our Special Correspondent.) SAN FRANCISCO. January 27. New Zealanders, who follow the eccentricities of the changing fashions of America, may be interested to loam i that hifrh shoes or boots and sandals j have been pronounced dead on the ' American Continent. I Their demise has been announced by I the male authorities, who decide before- | hand what Miss Columbia and Miss Canada are to wear on their nimble feet during the coming season. And I they are very definite about it. The I up-to-date vounef lady, whatever her personal inclinations, must not wear the sandal, which proved so cool in sultry (lays last summer, while her boots, how- : ever dainty. must be relegated to the shelf until the cycle of fashion rolls I them in again. And the same young I iadv must not wear a Cuban heel. ; Rules for 1023 are now definitely j formulated. For smart street wear, as . well as for semi-dress and full dress : occasions mademoiselle must wear a full i Lonis heel this soring. Doctor* may rage about the effect of high heels and ! phvsieal culture experts raise their voices about the mischief wrought, but Miss Columbia and her sister across tlie international border north, if she would ibe up to the minute, must shop in high j hee.K I For sport, it is a different matter, nnj I the sports shoes this year are certain Ito please the fatnilv doctor. A broad toe and a medium heel, known technically as b "ten eipbt." at=d which is the medium between the low flat sport heel and the Cuban, make for comfort and freedom. Fashion's hallmarks this year in the shoes are the one strap and the "cutout." The one-strap, pomilar last, season, is undiminished in favour and 75 per cent of the sboes sold tnis year will be of this pattern, the head of a leading shoe firm stated. Tt may fasten with one or two buttons, and there are variations in style, but it must boast of one stran only. Then i "cut-outs." or shoes with holes cut in : the leather to form a certn in design ! are to be the rage. Featured last year, they nave come back with redoubled strength. JUNIOR COLONIAL. A popular one strap semi-dress model in silver prey suede has 22 "ent-outs -, or "openings" and a full Louis covered heel. Next in favour to the one strap for dress wear will be the "junior colonial," a one straD pump- in which the strap is concealed by a short outstanding tontrue, which may also be "cut-out," and the "cut-out Oxford -, low shoe, a smart shoe laced with ribbon, and with cut-out sides. Satin will be the smartest of all materials for dress ' shoes, with grey suede trimmed with patent as second favourite and beige suede with patent trim, next in favour. The business girl with her summer frocks this year will wear white shoes with patent trim, black and white being ; the favoured combination for the com- ! ing summer. Medium or high heels and one strap are favoured. Very smart sports shoes are also shown of , white elk with patent trim, grey elk with patent, and beige with brown suede trim. These have comfortable broad . toes and medium heels. But the most gay sports shoes to be shown are white buck blucher Oxfords with blue or pink quarters and tios and radio rubber soleg I and heels. The ordinary leather Oxi ford shoe for hard wear renppears with J sensible toes and heels. But it must 'be brown. Black walking Oxfords are out of favour, it is said by these directors of the new fashions. The ball given in the Winter Garden by Mrs. F. L. Scott, Mrs. Ernest Cooke and Mrs. Maurice Louisson, in honour jof the visiting medical men and their : wives, must surely have been the gayest • function of a particularly gay week, says the "Lyttelton Times." Following is a description of some of the dresses worn, Mrs. Parkes (Auckland), tomato red georgette richly beaded in black; Miss Parkes (Auckland), girlish frock of soft pink satin with sleeves and draped side panels of cream lace: Miss , Murray (Auckland), black satin i with sleeves and overskirt of black radium lace: Mrs. Carrick Robertson (Auckland), black georgette with panels back and front of royal blue eequins.