WINGED FEET.

Taranaki Daily News, 14 December 1932, Page 11

WINGED FEET.

It was a young American woman in Paris who started the vogue for the painted hat. She visited the studio of a •well-knoWn painter and said: “I am too fond of this old hat to throw it away, and I like your work. Will you colour it up a bit and sign it?” So he did, and the new mode was duly launched. Other leading artists are equally obliging, and for quite good fees! We hear that feathers are popular again, and are contributing to feminine smartness. Feather shoes and feather gauntlets are very new. Perhaps when we have a very old pair of shoes that we are fond of—a pair we can wriggle all our toes in—we shall take it along to an ostrich farm or the farmyard ■ and choose the most attractive bird for our plucking. If the shoes are tan, a nice well-covered Rhode Island Red would be our prey. A shiny Blade Orpington would smarten up any old pair of patent leather shoes, and if we have a snake’s skin pair that is working towards shabbiness, a Silver Wyandotte would do the trick. Last Summer’s white shoes would, of course, look their best with the best .feathers off a White Leghorn (if it’s a nice clean one). Chickens, soft and fluffy, would always oblige for the baby. So there is the shoe question settled, and then witn “winged heels” we could fly on our way —soar the heights indeed. Jazz and Beauty Sleep. Mrs. Grundy has evidently travelled to the south of France and has chosen Jnan les Pins as the centre of her activities (states an overseas writer). One of her first acts was to complain to the municipality that her beauty sleep was disturbed every night by jazz bands. This caused the Mayor of Antibes to issue an order that no music should be played in the night clubs of Juan les Pipg, which is under his jurisdiction, after 10 p.m. Twenty or more policemen toured the establishments to enforce the . decree.

At 10.15 pan. the Mayor himself appeared in Juan les Pins, and a crowd of 3000 people greeted him near the Casino with cries of: “We want music. Down with the Mayor! Throw him into the sea.” He was saved from the angry throng by policemen. The crowd continued to protest, however, and did not disperse until the Mayor promised that music would be permitted for that night at least, but not later than midnight.