Summer Shoes Must Be Simple

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 484, 13 October 1928, Page 20

Summer Shoes Must Be Simple

While Fashion allows us all unlimited choice of colour and pattern in our new frocks, we must be discreet in the buying of shoes and handbags which will fit into such an extremely floral scheme of things as we are likely to see at the smart occasions of this season. The shoes will rely on the lovely arch to the instep and the cut which makes the shoe fit the foot as closely as the new French suede gloves cover the hand. Should flesh-coloured stockings remain chief favourites, the shoe that most closely matches them in tone will be the smartest. With short frocks the general effect is spoilt if the shoe is of too distinct a contrast and does not melt into the general scheme of things. Flesh-coloured shoes have the advantage of toning in nicely with al-

most everything. Even with a black ensemble they give additional height to the wearer than do black shoes. The newest shoes concentrate on the sole and heel, eliminating the covering of the feet to the merest necessity. High stilts will, of course, look smartest of all, and those with the sandal top of light or brightly-coloured kid. mounted on ultra-high stilts, will give the wearers of pretty floral chiffon frocks the greatest sense of satisfaction. Almost an essential to the spring toilet is the bag which matches the shoe. For the woman who prefers to cling to her black or navy shoes there are plainly fashioned kid handbags bearing the same perforations in the kid as in the covering of the shoes. A glimpse of a flesh-toned stocking through the perforations comes as a welcome relief to an all black ensemble.

HIPS AGAIN FASHIONS BRISTLE The latest form of bustle is so called by courtesy only, for it is not at all like the old stiff horsehair erection of that name. Yet it is an excrescence from the outline of the frock. This year “the bustle” is worn at the side, on the right or left hip. It may be made of part of the skirt, draped and bunched up, or it may be a separate sash so arranged. With Picture Frocks This side bustle is worn with voluminous picture frocks as well as with skimpy short ones on which one hip remains flat without any fullness, while the other billows in an exuberant pouf. A frock that consists of a mass of lace frills from neck to knee has a wide taffeta sash crossed from under the left arm to the right hip, and is there twisted into a bustle. Another variation is a lace drapery bunched on the left hip and held in place by a wreath or half-wreath of gay flowers.