SHOES OF TO-DAY.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19412, 21 August 1926, Page 6 (Supplement)

SHOES OF TO-DAY.

The shoes of to-day, if they would be chic, must look very complicated and be stitched, worked in all sorts of ways, incrusted and trimmed with open-work, writes a Parisienne. Patent leather and suede are combined, satin with gilt leather, with steel beads. A shoemaker of the grand boulevards lias just designed a slipper of Etruscan red suede with incrustations of black patent leather; another one shows a champagne-coloured leather shoe with a zigzag ornament in beige, coffee-brown and two tones ol maroon. A famous French bottier shows pierrot shoes with alternating checks of black, silver and gold leather on a red base and another bottier prefers the perforated blue slipper with a whij)» lining. The informal shoe fashion is naturally less complicated than these elegant extremes. For walking shoes, Paris has no real innovations; the Parisienne still wears the low-heeled, one-strap shoe with a steel buckle. This shoe is carried out in crocodile leather or in maroon box-calf. For the afternoon, the fight is on between leather and satin. Black satin, with a bit of silver edging, brown satin or biegerose satin are all very popular. The afternoon shoes in satin are all laced high above the instep. The afternoon shoes of leather usually mount rather high and ,are buttoned at the side..