COLOURED SHOES

Manawatu Times, Volume XLIX, Issue 3496, 4 November 1926, Page 4

COLOURED SHOES

BKALTIFLL TONES. This summer colour has crept back again into shoos, and for immediate holiday wear shoes of coloured canvas or line raffia, with inlets and strappings of grey or beige kid are very attractive. The colour of the shoe should match the frock. The more exclusive lizard and snake skins are also dyed In colours for smart shoes, and among the many beige, mastic and stone shades is to bo found a now delicate flesh tone. This in glace kid is extremely dainty, and a perfect accompaniment to dresses of a rose-beige shade. As far as possible shoes still match the dress, though lizard and fino glace kid shoes in delicate shades of beige or grey are suitable for wear with almost any smart toilette. Reptile skins are still the aristocrats among shoo materials; crocodile skin for smart sports or country wear, and lizard, python or water-snake lor all lighter makes ot shoes. These shoes are usually quite plainly made, the material being sufficiently beautiful to need no decoration. These skins have, by the way, practically taken the place of fino suede. Shoe manufacturers tell us that vm-y little suede is now being marie, and that factories hitherto solely engaged on that materia 1 are now busy with lizard and snake skins. That explains why beautifully made and fine shoes of suede could he bought at less than half price ai the recent sales. Glace kid anc patent leather are often elaborated with inlets, strappings and pipings of reptile skins, and a favourite design for smart wear is a court shoein patent leather with a “collar," oi all-round edging of grey lizard. Foi the comfortable, low-heeled sanda' shoe grained goat skin in a boigshade is much used. The strap shoe is still the most fashionable shape—and it is certainly the most comfortable. Straps are narrow, but their way is no! always straight. Sometimes two straps cross each other, passing through a little ring or bucklo centred over the instep. Ail shoos for smart wear have the Louis or half-Louis heel; the Cuban heel, which does not give the same graceful lino to foot and ankle, has not found much popularity in this country. Shoes for evening are indescribably dainty, with diamante studded heels, straps, and jewelled buckles. All kinds of lovely materials art used for them—metal tissues, brocades and the plain soft satins that form such an excellent setting for jewelled trimmings. For theatre wear the court shoe is much favoured, but for dancing, when comfort is all-essential, a strap shoe is preferred.