Colorful handmade knee-high boots with turned-up toes might be the winter version of the ornate slippers that were last summer's fashion craze ($75).

Their legs were bare from the knee down to sandals with turned-up toes, but they wore long-sleeved tops with snug cuffs.

Poignant Vision, Rich Colors Mr. Yamamoto showed a sweet, poignant vision, with models in towering satin top hats, hair strawlike and dyed, and long clown shoes with turned-up toes.

Known as Molière shoes, after the playwright whose characters sported the style, they had turned-up toes and signature stumpy heels.

Slippers with turned-up toes in gold leather or in colorful suedes and satins cost $175 to $325.

As Lully had remarked, most of them wore Pierrot costume, with pompons on their white hats and long slippers with turned-up toes.

And the turned-up toes of the snowshoes helped, and a little later he strode forward through the impossible, a man walking upon a cloud, through shadows, beneath a sky and sun which did not seem of earth.

A knee-length pleated skirt clad his legs; slippers with turned-up toes, his feet.

I kept from laughing at how his jowels quivered in his soft face beneath the splendid turban, kneeling to kiss the turned-up toes of his kidskin slippers.

They were both six feet and more--and dressed alike in untidy turbans, knee-length shirts worn over baggy white cotton pantaloons, embroidered waistcoats and sandals with turned-up toes.