Australian Women's Weekly (1933 - 1982), Saturday 19 August 1939, page 7
SUMMER SHOES ...
FOOTWEAR makes exciting fashion news this summer. Revolu-tionary ideas run riot in shoes for day, even-ing, cruise, plage, and resort wear.
Built-up soles, ankle-straps, fluted heels, cor-rugated clogs, and a variety of new wedge and platform types are all stepping smartly into the sunlight-and dancing gaily in the nightlights.
On this page are shown some exclusive pictures of the very latest shoes.
. THE NEW "slick slack" cruise or holiday shoe designed to give super comfort on shipboard or on land. This version is carried out in royal-blue suede uppers contrasted against sealing-wax red soles.
. FOR SIGHT-SEEING or watching the game these spectator shoes in white-and-chocolate kid oie the tops. Cushioned heel on fluted inset.
. INSPIRED by a Bulgarian awning are the yellow-and-red kid braidings on this jaunty
summer or cruise shoe.
. DOUBLE-DECKER for dancing. Unusual evening shoe of fluted gold kid, with rows of
cyclamen-and-green stitching. The two-color contrast is repeated in the felt platform.
. THIS SHOE goes Hollandaise. Corrugated clog for strolling over the sands this summer. Grey-and-scarlet kid cut in layer fashion.
. EXTRA THICK SOLES of gold kid match th© spike heels of this black satin toeless afternoon sandal; sprinkled with squares of colored glass.
. THE PEAK of summer coolness. Ballerina evening shoe of gold kid braid in basket design.
Toeless, with pink satin lining.
. MESH HAS DASH. A high-stepping afternoon shoe in lacquered kid. The cut-away heel makes it the coolest of footwear for anv
dressy occasion.
-Air mail photos from Mary St. Claire.