FOR LEATHERLESS SHOPS.

Pukekohe & Waiuku Times, Volume 6, Issue 272, 4 May 1917, Page 2 (Supplement)

FOR LEATHERLESS SHOPS.

Prices of leather have heeii boo-ted U'vond all reason, and if the prices are to he reduced, tno public must learn lo wear shoes made from leather Mibsiitutes. Although I iw the word substitute, the .article- that inii-t supplant leather are not ule.s. Thev are canvas, cork, and rubber. With these articles we can make j-lioes ti:;it are as durable and stylish as tho.se product-d from leather." So declared A. C. M'Koweii, head of John Wanamaker's shoe depari meiit. to the annual convention of the Penny-l-v.mia Shoe Retailors' Association, held at the Bellovue-Sti atford, Philadelphia. l'-fc month. More than .'VHI retailer®, repre-i nting every section of the Slate, attended, and brought to the convention but one complaint, that 'he price of shoes is soaring to .siicli an extent that the public in threatening repnsilin the form of bnveotis.