NEW STYLES IN SHOES AND STOCKINGS

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XXVI, Issue 282, 12 November 1936, Page 10

NEW STYLES IN SHOES AND STOCKINGS

British women have never been noted as the possessors of beautiful feet, generally speaking, and it has required their American cousins to bring home to them the fact that their feet are by no means ugly. Englishwomen who have been wearing shoes based on American designs have discovered that the long cherished idea that their feet were much too large is a myth, and British shoe manufacturers, who formerly did not trouble to nail the libel—are now speeding up production in models based on American lines.

Another amusing sidelight of the shoe business is the fact that Italian women are buying the American opentoed sandals for outdoor and indoor wear. Viennese women are wearing shoes based on peasant designs, and heavy leathers for active sports wear. Designed for sports wear, particularly summer golf, patterned hosiery for women will seen be here. It is in light cashmere . and silk, and the patterns are neat and suitable for wearing with tweed or linen tweed skirts. In Austria, however, stockings are considerably gayer, and to match a red and white scarf worn with an oatmeal suit there are stockings of the same pat? tern.