SHOES FOR HEAT
Startling innovations' in- menV footwear are explained by Great Britain '» record summer. A wide range of men.'* sandals to be worn without sockswa« an outstanding feature of the Bootmaking Trades • Exhibitionj ' recently: held in London. Whfen' some of thesa sayCals were., worn jn the, streets 4hey seemed to be s^o linconifprtajle^'■ that critics of the new fashion -decided .that the main result would be a- great in? crease in thb business of chiropodists. Fashions for women show that buckles and bars are being supplanted by laeea, some at tho sides of the shoes* and, straight heels have como into their own again. The freak innovation- is in slippers, each with a tiny electric bulb on the toe to guide the. wearer, so it is claimed, to the bathroom.. It is suggested that the idea may-be tended to the shoes-of men who reach, home in the early .hours of the morning.
London contains a Jileboafc" Ration;, where nineteen of these hnnianitarian .tbbt sels are constantly xeaiy,. to1 be riighed.trfl to replace boats, which; meet --with, disaster, ' . . -' •'" . ..•
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Evening Post, Volume CXVI, Issue 113, 9 November 1933, Page 4
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178SHOES FOR HEAT Evening Post, Volume CXVI, Issue 113, 9 November 1933, Page 4
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