MANY WAYS TO ASSIST BREAKING-IN YOUR SHOES
People talk of breaking-in shoes without even considering. that they might be broken in by other than sensitive feet. Good bootmakers keep a muttoii bone whieh does much to make boots supple, but tker majority of feet -are thrust into set models and are expected to conform, all the moro because sizea bave been increased and shapes are somewhat considered. Breaking-in, even to the hardiest, is a horrible job, and much of it . might be spared the ordinary person. There are, for instance, shoemaker's implements which can be bought at any of the cheap stores and upon whieh shoes can be placed and then hammered into suppleness. Further, a discreet use of castor oil is a great help, and it hurls no shoe that is jnade of leathej, and adniits o'f a fine polish afterwards. If th'e shoe is uncomfortable across the big-toe joint, it should be well castor-oiled and the last stuck in $o that the pressure is eoncentrated upon this point. With the ordinary last of toe and heel connected by a pieeo of springy rnelaJ Ihig is coinparatively eqsy to do. This is a great s'aving to the feet, Similarly, soles of thick -shoes which seem unyielding can ; ;be stood in castor oil. It soaks in and they beeome supple and easy to wea'r
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 189, 27 August 1937, Page 11
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224MANY WAYS TO ASSIST BREAKING-IN YOUR SHOES Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 189, 27 August 1937, Page 11
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