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New Zealand Mail, Issue 956, 27 June 1890, Page 2

A Study o,b Shoes. — A study of several hundred pairs of toes, at a busy part of a thronged thoroughfa.re, sustains the belief (says the Shoe and Leather Reporter), that women are wearing shoes longer than their feet. In fact, many of these slender, tapering shoe toes can be seen to form a distinct bend beyond the natural one in walking. Broad toes, however, were not among the crowd of feminine pedestrians, except an occasional pair upon feet which showed too plainly their capabilities of resisting much restriction, Not more than two or three in lp.O were suspiciously short, and none was seen in which the suffering toes seemed trying to force an outlet at the tip end of the shoe, such as a few years since were frequently noticeable. Ths objectionably feature still retained is the want of comfortable space, across the shoe from ball to toe. In many cases this was found so narrow that a stroqg inclination to walk most on the hegl, to relieve the pressure at this point, was observable. On the whole, women’s feet appear to better advantage than ever, both as regards beauty of appearance and comfort. It is rarely that one sees nowadays the bunch of cramp toe knhckles which were the unsightly penalty of too short toes.