THE SHOES TO WEAR.

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 342, 31 October 1908, Page 11

THE SHOES TO WEAR.

A • few years ago nothing' appeared more firmly fixed-in feminino popularity than black shoes and stockings for dress occasions. Certainly, tan footwear offered a charico of variety, but only for everyday and country uso. Now,.says an Australian paper, wo are not limited in choice, for coloured shoes - with embroidered or plain hosiery to match are tho feature of many.a smart toilette. 'Walking shoes are shown in every colour, and the prettiest are made of undressed leather, having the appearance of stiffened suede kid, which, bootmakers say, will not stretch'any more than ordinary glace dressed leather. Bootmakers assort that tho women of today are wearing boots of much larger sizes than they did ten .years ago. Laced shoes are more in demand than buttoned, and fashion.insists that the! eyelet holes shall bo as large as a threepenny-piece, as ribbon two or more, inches wide is used instead of tho usual laco. In the caso of evening shoes, buttons are necessary for the instep strapsj and to bo correct they should be large and ornamental. Walking heels are of more sensible dimensions than they were a short timo ago, as tho. Cuban variety has taken the place of the "Louis." Both aro high, but the Cubau is the firmer, and less liable to turn, and thus causo wrenched ankle..