Platforms right, says shoe trade
(N.Z. Press Association) I AUCKLAND, Feb. 21. i Fashionable young women today were given a conditional goahead to wear trendy platform-sole shoes. i The approval, only slightly tinged with warning, was J given by a man who should know, the deputy-director of the Shoe and Allied Trades I Research Association (Mr I J. G. Butlin). I Platform-sole shoes, even j those up to five and six inches in height, were not in themselves dangerous or bad shoe-sense, he said. "Provided the shape is
i right for the foot, there should be no basic problem as , far as foot health is con- j r cerned,” he said. “The danger i ’ is that they have a greater , - inherent risk of twisting , ■ ankles. "There is no problem, projvided girls adjust their gait j !to suit the high sole. They • /I have to make that allow- ( slance.’’ i f; Mr Butlin’s association, ' ( I with its headquarters in Eng- 1 r i land, has more than 400 ’overseas member companiesj, i! throughout the world. j 5 1 He is visiting many of I ] | them in New Zealand, South , Africa, Australia and North j siAmerica. I
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Press, Volume CXIII, Issue 33157, 22 February 1973, Page 6
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195Platforms right, says shoe trade Press, Volume CXIII, Issue 33157, 22 February 1973, Page 6
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