. India rubber world. A Relic of 1844. heels. Women in iliosc days were content to walk on suchfeet as Heaven had vouchsafed to them, and had not learnedto resort to French heels and Cuban heels for the purposeof subtracting from the length of their feet to add to theirstature. They wore heelless shoes and. naturally, rubbers to lit them were also made heelless. .other noticeable fea-ture is the squareness of the toes, pointed toes being at thattime not at all in vogue. .othcr point of difference from present-day footwearwill be noticed in one of the shoes, which has four straps. Four L
. India rubber world. A Relic of 1844. heels. Women in iliosc days were content to walk on suchfeet as Heaven had vouchsafed to them, and had not learnedto resort to French heels and Cuban heels for the purposeof subtracting from the length of their feet to add to theirstature. They wore heelless shoes and. naturally, rubbers to lit them were also made heelless. .other noticeable fea-ture is the squareness of the toes, pointed toes being at thattime not at all in vogue. .othcr point of difference from present-day footwearwill be noticed in one of the shoes, which has four straps. Four L.\uvs S.\.\I).\i,, 1844. over the instep. These open-vamp strap sandals were verypopular in the earlier days, notwithstanding the fact that itwas something of a nuisance to get all these straps on overthe leather shoe. To obviate this difficulty and still keepthe same effect, a few jears later rubbers were made inimitation of the strap style, the vamp being a solid piecewith raised lines showing the strap pattern. And for a longlime rubber sandals with some sort of pattern stamped inthe vamp were exceedingly popular, but they liave not now for at least two decades. The sale of rubber footwear, while it grew continuouslyfrom the first year after Goodyear issued his licenses, grew\ ery slowly, for the records show that seventeen yearsafterwards, in 1861, the entire rubber footwear productionof the United States only amounted to pairs, valuedat a trifle over $750,000. These figures look rather smallwhen contrasted with the present output, which
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