FAUST A high cut house shoe similar to a "Romeo" with V-shaped cuts at the sides, instead of U-shaped and no goring.
Far. A sheet made of fibres of wool, hair, fur, etc., matted together and rolled fiat, usually with sizing to give it con sistency. It differs from a fabric, inasmuch as the fibres we not spun into threads and then cross-woven, but are in allowed to drift into a loose layer in a current of air, then into sheet under pressure.
Paths. A light form of wood or other material placed in a shoe used as a sample, for display or in stock, to distend it to the appearance it would have when worn. A New York Wore introduced a plan of placing fillers in each shoe as it was put in stock, these being sold to the customer at a cheap rate to use as shoe trees. Light, hollow wood fillers are made by last makers, following the exact conformation of the different lasts they produce and therefore filling and fitting perfectly the shoes which are made from such lasts.
Rwrems. A general term applied to articles which are incidental or accessory to the manufacture, the trimming Or the care of shoes. The list includes practically every thing in shoes except leather. As applied to the shoe store, it includes such articles as laces. polishes and dressings, shoe trees, foot powders, rubber heels, arch supports. beef
plates, shoe horns, shoe brushes, insoles, fancy buckles and numerous other incidental articles.
Pcscra FOXED. Having a pieced Blucher quarter so cut that the heel foxing extends forward to the throat in a narrow strip below the upper part of the quarter, the lower piece looking a little hire a hand with the fore finger extended.
Pnwaa Srrrantem Stitelrlog which reinforces the lapped quarter of a Blucher shoe.
?num. The final methods and processes of preparing the leather for use. or of polishing, buffing or otherwise treating the soles of shoes upon completion. (See Bottom Finish and Leather.) Frrrom. The selection and adjustment of ready-made Oces, with reference to their adaptation to the foot of the intended wearer.
Pull information is given under the subject Lasts as to the scale of measurements, especially with reference to the additional extensions.
Prrross Srom.. A low, slanting-topped stool upon which the shoe salesman sits when trying on a shoe, it having a *let the shoe on which to rest the foot of the customer while mg thereto.
Pcrrusg. Any stand, bracket, hook, support or other device for displaying samples of the merchant's shoe stock. in window or other parts of the store.