Mrs. Culp's Diary, Friday, March 19, 1937

Beautiful and expensive shoes, and the best-dressed women in Washington

The Culps and a friend, Mrs. G---, drove to St. Petersburg. Ever in search of comfortable footwear, Mrs. Culp wrote, "I bought 1 pair of white shoes at Foot Comfort shoe shop for $12.50." Good heavens! In current dollars, she paid $228 for those shoes! They picked up her sister Else and went to Pass-a-Grille beach for lunch. Here is a 1937 ad for shoes,…