There are those who appear to urge the idea that broad soles are eminently proper always, and for everybody, which doctrine we do not endorse; but we mean to say that persons who have wide feet naturally, or who have made them wide at the joints in the ways here pointed out, ought to wear wide soles. It is also quite certain that if people wore soles of the correct shape from childhood there would be a far less number than now of those feet, that require this extra width of sole, for nine-tenths of them _are forced into a width which they would not have by nature_, and, when once deformed, no pains taken in fitting them can make them look _well_, or like those which keep their proper shape. A _narrow_ foot must not be confounded with a _slim_ one. Feet that are slim—that measure less than an average in circumference—are often found _wider_ than most of those of the same length which are of medium size or fulness. These are feet that _spread_, and may generally be found on individuals of spare or muscular temperament. Such persons ought to wear boots made on wide lasts, with wide toes, though at the same time sufficiently slim to fit. As such lasts cannot easily be found ready-made, those having feet of this shape ought to possess a pair made expressly for themselves. There is an opposite style of feet, those which are long and narrow, while they may be also _full_, or thick, vertically. These are usually found on persons who are tall, yet round, and fleshy in physique. They can wear boots made on lasts that are comparatively narrow, such as may be found at any shoe-shop. It is not intended to argue in favour of any _unnecessary_ width in either case, but simply to urge the necessity, not only for comfort, _but especially for elegance also_, of having sufficient width to accommodate the foot easily, and preserve the natural shape of both the foot and its covering. Bad fashions of _lasts_ have had much to do in producing a deformed condition of the feet, as well as the false ideas and tastes of the people. Shoemakers, and more especially last-makers, who should have studied the nature of the foot, and given the people, who looked to them for a correctly-shaped last and shoe, something truly and naturally adapted to its purpose, have failed in this part of their duty. The latter have made lasts of all varieties of shape except the true one, while the maker of the shoe has made a bad matter worse with his high and short heels.