"All shoes, both leather and fabric, shall be restricted to black, white, and two colors of tan (the two colors of tan to be dark brown or tan and a medium brown or tan). "Patent leather shall be black only. These color regulations do not apply to baby shoes made of fabrics. "Shoe-manufacturers shall not, for the next six months, introduce, purchase, or use any new style lasts. They may replenish to cover wastage or to meet requirements on present lasts now in use in the manufacture of shoes. This is to be effective at once. By new style lasts is meant any lasts which have not actually been used for the manufacture of shoes in the past season. "The use of leather as a quarter lining in oxfords and low shoes is permitted only when used in skeleton form with fabric. Leather linings will be permitted in evening slippers where uppers are made of fabrics. We advocate the use of full fabric linings for low shoes wherever possible. "The maximum height of women's shoes, both leather and fabric, shall not exceed eight inches (measured from breast of heel at side to center of top at side of finished shoes), size 4B to be the base measure. "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.