"The maximum height of misses' shoes, size 1½, shall not exceed 6½ inches (measured as above).
"The maximum height of children's shoes, sizes 8½-11, shall not exceed six inches.
"The maximum height of boys' and youths' shoes shall not exceed 5½ inches.
"The maximum height of infants' shoes, sizes 4-8, shall not exceed 5½ inches.
"The maximum height of button shoes for women shall not exceed 6½ inches.
"The maximum height of all women's overgaiters shall not exceed eight inches, measured from breast of heel at side to center of top at side.
"The maximum height of misses' overgaiters shall not exceed 6½ inches (measured as above)."
LEATHER CONSERVATION
Germany was not the only country prepared to employ substitutes. When the National Army in the United States was organized the Wall Street Journal predicted that on account of the large consumption of leather for military purposes, the civilian population would be obliged to have thinner soles and probably to use leather substitutes:
"Price fixing on leather is still 'in the air.' It is not an easy proposition, in view of the complexity of grades and the variations in quality. The most practicable arrangement would be a series of general price standards, with allowance for deviations. Unlike other commodities, leather trading is a very flexible affair. The trade is confident of fair price maxima in relation to recently fixed hide quotations; possibly, in view of higher labor and other costs, of somewhat more liberal rates than hide prices, which have just been modified upward somewhat.