We blacken the uppers of our boots.

After tanning and curing his hides by placing them in water with oak bark for several days and then exposing them to the sun to dry, he would cut out the uppers and the soles after measuring the foot to be shod.

The neat bottines, à la Diane Chasseresse, took a charming touch of lightness from the aluminium nails which decorated the "uppers" with a quaint and original Dravidian cornice.

Women, who are largely used in making "felt and carpet uppers," cannot, if they work their hardest, make more than 1s.

They can be relied on for at least two or three long seasons, if one is careful to oil the uppers with boot oil occasionally, and never to oil the soles except with linseed oil, which is said to harden them.

Upon collar work, and in sewing boot uppers, the rate seldom rises above 1,200 with advantage.

A drop-feed oscillating shuttle machine for manufacturing purposes; a wheel-feed oscillating shuttle machine, furnished with a trimmer, used chiefly in stitching leather and boot uppers; double chain-stitch machine, used for sack making, now shown for the first time; and a single thread "Lightning Sewer," fitted with a trimmer for hosiery work.

Is it that you are wearing out the uppers with scraping at them and scratching!