. Personal hygiene and home nursing : a practical text for girls and women for home and school use. ather sole, even a thick one, will absorb water andbecome damp. A foot bath and a pair of clean stockings and lighthouse shoes are very restful after a hard day. How to know good shoes. The injury that is done to the feetby the type of shoes usually worn by women is so well known tothem all that it is not necessary to enter into the discussion here;but, as so many women who wish to wear the proper shoes under-stand so little about them and find them so difficult to buy, adescription of a shoe al
. Personal hygiene and home nursing : a practical text for girls and women for home and school use. ather sole, even a thick one, will absorb water andbecome damp. A foot bath and a pair of clean stockings and lighthouse shoes are very restful after a hard day. How to know good shoes. The injury that is done to the feetby the type of shoes usually worn by women is so well known tothem all that it is not necessary to enter into the discussion here;but, as so many women who wish to wear the proper shoes under-stand so little about them and find them so difficult to buy, adescription of a shoe along the proper lines may be given. (i) A shoe of the right shape and size should fit closely at theheel and about the arch, but it should be long enough and broadenough for the foot, giving ample room for the toes. The arrange-ment of bones and muscles in the foot is such as to make the footboth strong and flexible. This arrangement makes the foot com- Clothing 25 pressible, and the foot can be forced into a shoe much too smallfor it. A corn or even a red spot on the foot is an indication of an. Fig. 17. The arch of the foot, and how a high heel props it up on end. ill-fitting shoe. A woman will suffer in her feet pain and discomfortwhich, located in any other part of her body, would drive herquickly to a physician for relief. We have all seen many womenwearing shoes which bound and injured their feet. (2) A shoe should have a straight last; that is, when the heelsof the shoes are placed together, the inner borders of the solesshould touch each other at shank and toe. (3) The heel should be of proper height to suit the wearer. Amistake that is frequently made is getting shoes with the heelstoo low, especially when one has been accustomed to wearing ashoe with a high heel. The muscles of the leg and the foot thathave grown accustomed to the high heel are strained by too suddena change to a very low heel. This is one reason why so manypeople will say that they cannot wear a commo
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