COLOURED SHOES.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 51, 23 November 1907, Page 11

COLOURED SHOES.

1 There'is a ; point to be remembered about coloured'shoes, says a writer in tlio "Queen, an'd'that is; : no foot'inclined'to be broad should Wear them.' i The l old reproach levelled- at the feet of the "nices Ariglaisc;" their length, .'does 'not' stand good to-day,--when tlio Americans have' taught us that length is beauty, as we havo considered it in our hands for- some time. But a long foot should not'be a flat' one,: and the present make of shoo does all- it .can to supply the appearance of an- arched instep, at any rate. This is as it 1 should, bo,' as the arch of the long, flatfish foot is -apt to collapse if the owner stands too- much; Tho hot-too-high. Louis heel has- this ! great: advantage, it is' ait excellent support for a.weak instep; but on no account should ; tlie,-hccl be.'high, not only from hygienic motives, but,for' "good- form's" sake, .i'must again remark that 1 think coloured —really .bright coloured—shoes for out "if doors, are most dangerous wear., Very few women aro really judges of,whether they arc the type that can run to such extremes.- it ever so slightly inclined to bo' ; "remarkable' in appearances-dean old middle Viotorianism! —or possossed of opulent outline or- colouring ;7-if, in short, of a, type that "fills the eye, ' .coloured shoes produco a vulgar result, and render an unfortunately garish and-meretri-cious .effect .which is .only to bo dubbed second-rate, :a most horrible thing to happen, to anybody!