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Show I1 SHOE pRICES AND THE WAR. . - The European war has had its In- ' fluence on style o dress in the "Unit ed States, and also on the price of goods. For instance shoes have advanced, ad-vanced, and now "a forecast is made that higher prices are to ho quoted, j A Chicago diepatch says: ! Styles of shoc3, especially for wom en, will be of the "common stock variety va-riety Instead of the excessive high top kind" next season, according to statements of manufacturers at the convention of the Illinois Shoe 'Dealers 'Deal-ers association. The colors will be dull grays and champagne, due to the shortage in dyestuffs. An increase of from 20 to 40 per cent in the price of shoes the coming winter was predicted, as the -war has shut off the supply of imported leather. Un-'less Un-'less the -world develops a substitute for leather within two years, Amer- ica will be the next wooden shoe ' nation, it was. said. Before two years the war will end. At present a very big percentage of the leather supply is used to make shoes for the soldiers. The men. must be kept well provided with footwear, foot-wear, and every soldier is consuming four times more leather than he did in times of peace. At the end of the ' war, leather should drop back to clos6 to normal prices and shoes ; .once more will be quoted at figures j ' - riot very much higher than two ;years ago. |