Well-Shod Women Wear Wedgies, Pumps, Boots

When I was first asked to write a man's-eye piece about woman's shoes, I was flabbergasted. I mean, after all, there aren't many fellows who can tell a wedgie from a splodgie, and I've always been particularly backward in this line myself.

But when you come to think of it, shoes make the woman in a way. A girl has to wear something on her feet and it might just as well be shoes. You can be sure that even the most unobservant fellow will goggle if his date turns up wearing a pair of splicies when form indicates that she should be wearing wodgies.

It's at junctions of this sort that a fellow suddenly realizes that he knows a good deal more about shoe fashions way in the back of his mind than he knows. He feels instinctively that something is wrong.

Now there is just one exception. I have always been baffled about when a girl should wear flat capriccios, or zambesis or whatever they're called (see left--those things). So far as I can see they look good all the time but I'm sure there's something wrong with this--I'm being indiscriminate I know and I hate myself for it.

But as for the rest from sneakers to walking shoes--why it's a cinch. Take walking shoes, for instance, why they're for. . .

And opera pumps. Well, as a matter of fact I never have seen why girls buy opera pumps in such numbers in view of the fact that there is so little opera going on around here. But maybe they wear them in the dorms when no one's looking.

I guess you girls are going to ask me what kind of shoes I most like to see a girl in. Well, alright, it's ... no, come to think of it, it's . . . and then sometimes on a fine spring day, when her hair's blowing in her face, I most like to see a girl in . . .

Come to think of it. I've never looked.