GIRL'S HIGH HEELS
"CHARMING BUT NOT SAFE" SHOES SHOWN IN COURT Her high-heel shoes were exhibited at Bradford County Court when Miss Muriel Cattell, an attractive ntanne(juin, sued a cinema. She claimed £4O damages for injuries received when she fell down five steps while "wearing high heels—and lost. Judgment was given for the cinema company with costs. "I must admit these shoes are charming," said Mr. 11. Bishop (for the cinema company), "but they are not exactly designed for safety going downstairs." But tall, golden-haired Miss Cattell does not intend to let this stop her wearing high heels —and she lias 32 pairs of such shoes. "High heels are an essential part of modern-dress wear," she told an interviewer at her home in Stump Cross, Halifax, Yorkshire. "Very high ones look ridiculous and are dangerous to health, but the normal high lie'el women have worn for years helps to keep one graceful and | gives an attractive walk, which sets off modern fashions."
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXVI, Issue 23339, 6 May 1939, Page 2 (Supplement)
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162GIRL'S HIGH HEELS New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXVI, Issue 23339, 6 May 1939, Page 2 (Supplement)
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