Fall fashion leans on legs and footwear impact
Fashion shifts this fall toward leg visibility with shoes playing a pivotal role. The eye focuses on footwear as an essential element of the total look.
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Newspaper
Norwalk Reflector
Location
Norwalk, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Aug 16, 1966
Page
4
Fashion shifts this fall toward leg visibility with shoes playing a pivotal role. The eye focuses on footwear as an essential element of the total look.
Fashion notes highlight lowered heels up to two and a half inches with sturdy design. Details include pipings, pleats, decorative collars, overlays, buckles, and hand stitching. Straps, metallics, silks, and deep neutrals dominate, with patent leather paired with saffron silk and teal. Wet vinyl rainboots trend, with bare look and sling styles gaining weight. Shoes for women, men, and children emphasize fit, variety, and wardrobe significance.
The piece notes autumn shoe colors like black forest greens and browns with hand rubbed finishes and new toe shapes. It also includes state of Ohio insurance certificates for American National, American Motorists, American Economy, and other major firms with 1965 financials and a July 1 1966 certification by William R. Morris.
Norwalk shoe salesmen report peak buying season for school footwear, especially styles for children and teens. Easter season follows with high fashion purchases, then Christmas for gift slippers. A salesman notes cooler weather boosts back to school demand as families buy one pair weekly for each child.
Children’s shoe fashion features roundish and square shapes with natural foot shaping. For girls, shiny and strappy styles prevail, while boys see blocky brogue influences with broad toes and detailing borrowed from menswear. Saddle shoes appear with cut‑outs and broad straps.
Norwalk area brides plan October weddings. Patricia Jean Schlachter and Remo A Spangnola will wed at St John Cathedral in Cleveland with an open church tradition. Patricia, a nurse in Cleveland, is engaged to Remo Spanola, a Motor Express dispatcher. Kathleen Marie Walker and Larry Werner also announce their engagement. Kathleen, of Cortland Street, a Notre Dame alumna and R R Donnelly employee, will marry Werner, son of Eva Werner, a Norwalk High School graduate, also employed by RR Donnelley of Willard.
Milan High School hosts MIMBO band room concert tonight. AARP picnic at Memorial Lake Park at noon. NF Efficiency Farm Women’s Club meeting with Mrs. Charles Chisholm at 2 p.m. Norwalk Oddfellows Local Lodge gathers at 8 p.m. Garden Clubs Council meets with Mrs. Robert Douglas at 8 p.m. Norwalk Women’s Bowling Association event sponsored by Columbia Gas at 7:30 p.m. Spars and Strikes Ladies Bowling follows the associational meeting.
Norwalk City Schools welcome two new teachers for fall. Mrs. Roger Brown formerly Linda Harmon, will teach first grade at League Street Elementary and bring team teaching experience from Woodville Elementary. She is a 1961 Norwalk High graduate with a B.S. from Bowling Green State University. She and her husband reside at 1341/2 East Main Street. Mary Lou Ball, Bellevue High and Kent State University graduate, will teach primary slow learner class, majoring in special education. She will live at 150 McKim Street, Bellevue.
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