PUT YOUR BEST FOOT FORWARD

Timaru Herald, Volume CXLIII, Issue 20783, 19 July 1937, Page 10

PUT YOUR BEST FOOT FORWARD

These are foot conscious days. Modern Englishwomen realise that' smartness begins at the sole. They dress down rather than up. Experience and elegantly-shod Americans have taught them that face, figure, even fortune will avail them nothing if their feet go uncherished. They now choose shoes in relationship to the rest of their clothes and the inferiority complex of British feet has vanished for ever. Women want fashion and footease both at the same time nowadays. They talk about jester toes, elastic-sided boots and gilt laces, but they walk about in shoes that fit well and feel good. If they are carried away by a pair of pumps with feminine toes and bows they insist that the journey shall be comfortable. Court Shoes Are Favourites Skirts are much shorter. Town shoes are very much in the public eye. The court is first favourite. In patent it matches the spring silks with an easy elegance. In suede it makes a cosmopolitan companion for a new tailleur Court shoes are no longer the perquisite of patrician feet. Consider low-cut tie shoes stitched or trimmed with braid, but keep them plain if you want them to look right with tweeds. Heels and Hats Your heels should depend on your hat. If you fling it high with a feather let your heels be low. Add another inch or two if you yearn for a flat French sailor girdled with flying birds. America has made shoe history with ankle high Oxfords. These are not easy to wear. They demand superb ankles and impeccable stockings. Choose a pair of home-grown Oxfords if you w'alk for pleasure and not just to get there. More than any other shape they are proof against hot pavements, country lanes and long shopping expeditions. Worn with angoras, hopsacks and tweeds, but never with silks. For Lanes and Links Sports need special shoes. To hike happily, a woman must be well shod. Good-looking brogues help the golf handicap. If you are young and gallant, wear a culotte with polished brown ghillies. It is the ideal outfit for all the sturdier sports. Rough and cherished country clothes can have ghillies to match. They can be punched, wear contrasting insets, or have fiat, fringed tongues if you are tired of them plain. • Flannel for tailored frocks and suits is in high flavour. Beige is its best colour. Have reptile shoes and buckled straps with flannel. Keep them very plain, since the surface is its own trimming. For a change, have piped shoes. They are new, and attractive if they are discreet. Be Wary of Colours With our frocks loyally a-flaunt, it is wellto be sober about extremities. What might look effectively gay at a cocktail party or on a film, looks cheap and nasty on the street. Blue is good. It fits in with most Coronation colour schemes. Black and dark brown are always correct. Grey for a “matched” ensemble or with delicate silks. Coppery shades with black and all the pale sun tans with flannels and linens. Wear black clocks on light stockings

if your legs will stand it. Wear fish-net lisle with homespun skirts and be very smart indeed.

We are all for putting our best feet forward nowadays. Both of them. Save up and buy a shoe trousseau. What feels best usually looks best . . .

this is one of the soundest foot rules. A flair for clothes is an enchanted possession, tl is not enough to be clever with hats or have a genius for clever dressing, you must see yourself “all in a piece” from head to foot. Keep your shoes in step with the rest of your ensemble.