SHOES OF TO-DAY

New Zealand Times, Volume LIII, Issue 12538, 30 August 1926, Page 5

SHOES OF TO-DAY

The shoes of 10-day, if they would be chic, must look very complicated and be stitched, worked in all sorts of ways, mcrusted and trimmed with open-work, writes a Pnrisiennc. Patent leather and suede are combined, satin with gilt leather. velvet with steel heads. A shoemaker of the grand boulevards lias just designed a slipper of Etruscan red suede with incrustations of black patent leather; another onen shows a ehampagnecoloured leather shoe with a zigzag ornament. in beige, coffee-brown and two tones of maroon. A famous French bottler shows pierrot shoes with alternating checks of black, silver and gold leather on a red base, and another bottler prefers the perforated blue slipper with a white lining. . „ The informal shoe fashion is naturally less complicated than these elegant extremes. For walking shoes, Paris has no real innovations; the Pansienne still wears the low-heeled, one-strap shoo with a steel buckle. This shoe is carried out in crocodile leather or in maroon boxcalf. For the afternoon, the fight is on between leather and satin. Black satin

with a bit of silver edging, brown satin or bioge-rosc satin are all very popu tavT’lio afternoon shoes in satin are all laced high above tile instep. The afternoon shoes of leather usually mount rather high and are bnttoned at the side.