A WARNING TO LADIES.

Globe, Volume XXII, Issue 1927, 28 April 1880, Page 3

A WARNING TO LADIES.

I have a word to the ladies, and I hope it will be taken seriously, but as it refers to an article of dress, I don’t suppose for a moment that it will. I am very sorry to say, ladi s, that you are becoming very much like the Chinese. You are rapidly losing the graceful walk which characterises, or ought to characterise, you by wearing shoes and boots that do not at all suit you. Are you aware that out of a hundred women you will not find one who can exhibit a perfect foot ? Instead of the toes being straight and shapely, the great too being in a line with the rest of the foot on its side, they are all squeezed together so as to make the great toe ’press on to an unsightly bunion ! What is the result of this ? Why, you have painful corns all over your feet, and walking becomes a labor of pain ! All this arises from high heels, and lately because it is the fashion to have your boots and shoes made to come to a point I wish her Majesty the Queen or the Princess of Wales would set a different fashion. To walk incomfo t you require a boot with a. broad sole and with plenty of room for the toes. But I know I might just as well ask the ladies to wear a bonnet of the fashion of 1876, as to ask them to wear anything, no matter how comfortable, that is nit precisely as Mr Worth or Mr Somebody else known to fashion, ordains it. I have done my part, however, in warning you, dear ladies. — ‘‘ Tipkins Thudd,’ u in the “ Isle of Wight Times.”