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Otago Witness, Issue 2812, 5 February 1908, Page 92

▼ ▼ * *^ I_^ V^T V-J WiS^ • And their advantages. The Welt Boot was invented witJh. the idea of making* as fine a boot as could be made. No idea of cheapness entered into the calculations of the man who invented the welt system of putting* a boot tog-ether, for simpler and cheaper ways of doing* the thing 1 are too apparent. The fundamental idea of the welt boot is to have the outsole attached to the boot by means of sewing* it to a welt which projects around the edge of the boot where the upper and sole join. This was done to do away with all roughness inside the boot. The insole was channelled on the side away from the foot, and on the lip of the channel was sewed the upper and the welt, the insole at the time of this operation, of course, beinginside the boot. Naturally, the junction of the welt, the lip of the channel in the insole, and the upper, made a ridg-e which extended around the boot. Inside this ridge is a flat surfaoe a fraction of an inch lower than the ridge around the edge of the boot. This is taken advantage of by filling it with cork or other substance to prevent the boot from squeaking and to keep out moisture. Manifestly this is a better way to make a boot than to simply tuck the upper between the two soles, the outer and inner, and sew or nail or peg them together. Long experience has proved that this welt plan of building a boot is better in practice as well as theory. Even the past five years has seen a large increase in the use of welt boots, for in that time they have been made cheaper than ever before, and people who dfd not know the comfort of a welt boot were thus initiated, and will always want welt boots hereafter. The man or woman who has worn one good pair of welt boots will not want to go back to any other kind— at least, not if he understands that the advantages obtained were due to the welt construction. j A Few Lines from Glace Balmorals, leather-lined, very neat toe, 22/6 Box Calf, ditto, 19/6 Glaoe Balmorals, medium or pointed toes, 22/6 Our Stock of . . . Glaoe Balmorals, broad" toes, 19/6 to 21/- The " Westral " Fine Box Calf, medium toes, 19/6 Men's Welted . . . Glace Balmorals, round or broad toes, 18/6 and 19/f Box Calf, round or broad toes, 18/6 and 19/6 Boots *&• " Health " Brand Glace Kid or Box Calf, 18/6, 19/6, 21/- Glace Kid Balmorals, patent leather toeir?3p,*tylish toe, 19/6, 22/6 City Boot Palace, George Street, Dunedin. JOS. McKAY, Propx-ietoi?.

You will pay too much if you don't get our prices before buying, BLACK ANI> ba«»ei> wires, fa Lavatory Basins and Sanitary Fittings. HAY PORKS BINDER OILS i ®|f* | IW^BS WVZJk BALATA BELTING (Guaranteed). RABBIT MLJSfjy SHEEP NBTTING.' S "^»^^^p' . fencing standards, &c WIRE ROPES (Agents for JNO. SHAW, Ltd.) PATERSON & BARR, LTD., Ironmongers, Vogel-St, Dunedin.

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