THE PARISIENNE FANCY.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 21147, 3 October 1930, Page 15

THE PARISIENNE FANCY.

Although low-heeled shoes are more or lees the vogue in France with sports clothes, there is not much indication that the average French girl regards them with a great deal of favour. She prefers a high .and slender heel which makes her foot Ipok small and her ankles slender, which means, of course, that she does not walk very much. 'ln fact, almost the first thing which strikes the newly-arrived traveller from England is the difference in the shoes worn by the English girl and her French sister. It is almost the only difference so far as clothes are concerned, for the one wears copies of the latest Paris models, with almost as much chic as the other. But the English girl for the most part wears a rather long and_ pointed one-strap shoe with a half Louis XV heel, which suits her height, and. while looking sufficiently dainty, enables her to walk with a swing which suggests a leisure much given to athletics. The French girl, on the other hand, seems to prefer a highheeled shoe, in which she can only take small steps, although the effect is charming.