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Show 1 Falling Off Their Shoes Remember when Bass Weejuns were the most popular shoes of the young set, when "loafers were the shoes to wear? Now the "fad shoe" is the platform, apthe the better, so higher, parently in that been have fact, girls high fall off to them. known Recently a girl of 13 in England fell off her fashionable platform shoes and broke her leg. Mrs. Esther Cryer, the principal of her school, thereupon called an assembly of all 700 pupils at the Gordano School, in Portishead, Somerset, and issued the followThese platform ing . warning: shoes which so many of you are multi-color- ed wearing are dangerous. These shoes certainly caused one of our students yesterday to break her leg. She was walking along and fell,over because of her shoes. She did not slip or trip over anything. As yet there is no ban on students wearing platform shoes. "But if the girls go on wearing them," Mrs. Cryer continued, "then we shall have to take further steps to halt it." Some of the platform shoes worn h by youngsters in Britain boast It heels and four-inc- h soles. makes the boys and girls who wear them resemble an army of clubfooted cripples. i i f' ; six-inc- . ' TAKING A STROLL IS A RISKY BUSINESS WITH MODISH PLATFORM HEELS. |
