I will have to be honest. Most of the time, us kids didn’t wear shoes. But there were occasions when we needed to have shoes, so arrangements had to be made to purchase them, and I remember what we did about buying shoes when we lived at the little house. It may—or may not—have been associated with the war and rationing. Both Daddy and Uncle Earl were involved in executing this plan.
They didn’t actually take us to a clothing or shoe store. We had to make other arrangements. But the shoes needed to fit! So, they carefully put my foot down on a piece of paper—probably newspaper—and they carefully cut a template for the foot, and that was what they used to determine the size of the shoes! Armed with the paper, they “went to town”—Tuskegee—and made the purchase. As best I remember, it worked ok, and the shoes fit.
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