WINKLEPICKERS THE FASHION
“Square Toes Haven't Got A Chance” (Special Crspdt N.Z.P.A.) LONDON. April 17 British shoe manufacturers. After many months of tiyipg to wean wsmen away from winklepickers in favotif if Auare-toedt shoes, have given up in despair Square <oes have not golpa-chance Rows and 'Sf Winkldpickers are IdTrea dy 'in tories waitingfor summer and autumn deliveries “Britain’s shoemakers bowing to the customer’s preference, have declared independence from the influence of the great French shoe designers." says the "Daily Telegraph ” “The fact that the customer they are obeying has in some cases a total lack of taste doesn’t deter them Some new winklepickers are more fierce than others In.‘better class’ ranges the point is faintly rounded. giving sometimes an intriguing diamond facetting that the Italians are pushing In others the point looks stark snd savage “In some shops in Britain,
it nether went out. All the hullabaloo about ‘squares’ left many shooners utterly cold
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Press, Volume CI, Issue 29801, 18 April 1962, Page 2
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