Fanny Ellsler's Shoes

- Speakíng ofshoes tor opera dances, Fanny Ellsler ssys, "I speak of the consumption in satin shoes seldom use Icss than three pair everv niht, and tliesliglitesteoil condems them, ond that upon the dirJiest etage in the world, puipnscly kept so to avoid slipping. These opera sboei nreofsuch peculiar mnke, uniting a certain stifFness wuh the most perfect pliancy that anïy one man iuEu.ope had been found with genras adequate to the work, Jansia de Paris."