"Devil Shoes"

Dominion, Volume 31, Issue 142, 12 March 1938, Page 4 (Supplement)

"Devil Shoes"

Slim Figures Needed for Corselet les T)EVIL shoes are the most fascinating footwear design ever offered for the delight of feminine feet and hearts. These shoes are cut high over the instep and extend into a long peak reaching to the ankle, aud at the back of the heel a smaller peak clings snugly to the base of the ankle. A variation of this style was seen at a recent Sydney showing in a pair of black suede shoes with a patent leather tongue slit down the centre of the instep to form two peaks. Interest was also centred in the new evening hats, which have caused such an uproar in London and Paris. One of the broad-brimmed type w.-rs of black felt, with the brim flung back from the face and trimmed on the underside with crossed bands of swathed petunia chiffon. Very cheeky was a cap composed o. two huge red Flanders poppies. Two of the petals of each flower fitted to the head at the back aud front, and the others stood up stiffly in an exaggerated halo effect, across the crown of the head. Those slimming exercises for the waist which everyone is always making a resolution to do regularly, and nevedoes, will probably bo responsible for many aching muscles during the next few months. Every woman who sees the new wide corselettcs of the autumn frocks will be bending and rolling with a will, in a frantic endeavour to achieve the slim figure these styles demand. A Molyneux model which showed tbe attractive result of this silhouette was a black dinner gown with a cummerbund of black sequins reaching from just below the bust to just above the hips. The same corsclette waist was seen in one of Maggy Houff’s covered-shoul-der dinner gowns, and was achieved bj ruchuig from the calyx neckline to the hips. A yoke of coarse black net covered Hie shoulders and arms.