Study of Feet Interesting

No Two Pair of Them Alike, and All Tell a Story to the Observant Individual.

In the subway and on the surface cars — in fact, in every sort of public conveyance — I have always found it interesting to while away the time spent in transit by making a study of feet.

Large feet, small feet, narrow feet and broad feet have characteristics all their own, and no two pairs of them are alike. The long, slender, graceful foot of the woman of fashion, she with the rather lavish taste, betokened in the extreme hell and narrow, buckled vamp; the smartly shod foot of the executive business woman, with mahogany calf and military heel; the neat but worn black leather shoe of the shop worker, and the ultra faddish down-at-the-heel, high-cut kid shoe of the stenographer or factory girl. All of them tell a story.

The girl who cares about getting ahead, and the boy who is ambitious, watch out that your feet do not betray you. Very often I have seen a well-groomed business girl whose appearance was entirely spoiled by a muddy or run-down pair of shoes and I always judge her accordingly.

An employer hiring an office boy or a clerk will invariably base his decision on the get up of his applicant. Unshined shoes and torn stockings may cause you to lose that opportunity for which you have always been looking. — Brooklyn Eagle

Culled by The Classic W from the pages of The Free Trader-Journal’s November 28, 1919 issue.