Shoes

Press, Volume CVI, Issue 31230, 30 November 1966, Page 16

Shoes

Sir, —One could not agree more with “Costly Results,” having lately been incapacitated for some weeks by trouble caused originally, though imperceptibly, by the

crude workmanship of a shoe. Another pair, bought also not inexpensively from a reputable firm, had to go back to the shop after a day or two because small tacks, point upwards, were protruding from the inner sole. A profound apology? Not a bit of it; just one of those things, the workmen sometimes forgetting to extract the tacks put in temporarily during the making. And within a fortnight the same shoe had to go back again for precisely the same reason. One has only to look at some of the women’s and children’s shoes, and those “winkle-picker” ankle boot affairs affected by certain youngsters, to realise what sort of workmanship and material is finding its way on to the market.—Yours, etc., M.T. November 29, 1966.