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      filed
      with the Securities and Exchange Commission on May 26, 2006</font></div>
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      No. 333-______</font><font id="TAB2" style="COLOR: black; LETTER-SPACING: 27pt">&#160;</font></div>
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      STATES</strong></font></div>
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      AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION</strong></font></div>
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      D.C. 20549</strong></font></div>
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      S-8</strong></font></div>
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      STATEMENT</strong></font></div>
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      SECURITIES ACT OF 1933</strong></font></div>
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      Shoe Company, Inc.</strong></font></div>
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      name of registrant as specified in its charter)</font></div>
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                Employer </font></div>
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                Maryland Avenue</strong></font></div>
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                Louis, Missouri 63105</strong></font></div>
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      Shoe Company, Inc.</strong></font></div>
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      and Stock Compensation Plan of 2002, as amended</strong></font></div>
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      title of the plan)</font></div>
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      I. Oberlander, Esq.</strong></font></div>
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      Vice President, General Counsel and Corporate Secretary</strong></font></div>
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      Shoe Company, Inc.</strong></font></div>
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      Maryland Avenue</strong></font></div>
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      Louis, Missouri 63105</strong></font></div>
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      854-4000</strong></font></div>
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      number, including area code, of agent for service)</font></div>
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                of securities </font></div>
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      solely for the purpose of calculating the registration fee, and based upon
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      average of the high and low prices of the Common Stock as reported on the New
      York Stock Exchange on May 19, 2006 in accordance with Rules 457(c) and 457(h)
      of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended.</font></div>
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      shares as may be issuable pursuant to antidilution provisions.</font></div>
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      Registration Statement registers an additional 2,100,000 shares of Common Stock,
      par value $3.75 per share (the &#8220;Common Stock&#8221;), for which a registration
      statement filed on this form relating to the same employee benefit plan is
      effective. Consequently, pursuant to General Instruction E of Form S-8, the
      contents of the Registration Statement on Form S-8 filed by Brown Shoe Company,
      Inc., Registration No. 333-89014, are incorporated by reference into this
      Registration Statement. Any statement contained in a document incorporated
      or
      deemed to be incorporated herein by reference shall be deemed to be modified
      or
      superseded for purposes of this Registration Statement to the extent that a
      statement contained herein or in any other subsequently filed document which
      also is or is deemed to be incorporated by reference herein modifies or
      supersedes such statement. </font></div>
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      I </strong></font></div>
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      REQUIRED IN THE SECTION 10(a) PROSPECTUS</strong></font></div>
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      1. Plan Information. </strong></font></div>
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      required by Part I of Form S-8 to be contained in the Section 10(a) prospectus
      is omitted from this Registration Statement in accordance with Rule 428 under
      the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the "Securities Act"), and the Note
      to
      Part I of Form S-8. </font></div>
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      2. Registrant Information and Employee Plan Annual Information.
</strong></font></div>
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      required by Part I of Form S-8 to be contained in the Section 10(a) prospectus
      is omitted from this Registration Statement in accordance with Rule 428 under
      the Securities Act and the Note to Part I of Form S-8. </font></div>
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      Registration Statement on Form 10, as amended under cover of Form 8 filed on
      February 18, 1981.</font></div>
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      addition, all documents filed by the Registrant with the Securities and Exchange
      Commission pursuant to Sections 13(a), 13(c), 14 or 15(d) of the Securities
      Exchange Act of 1934 (the "Exchange Act") subsequent to the effective date
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        offered hereby have been sold or de-registering all securities then remaining
        unsold, shall be deemed to be incorporated by reference herein and to be
        a part
        hereof from the date of filing of such documents. These documents include
        periodic reports, such as Proxy Statements, Annual Reports on Form 10-K,
        Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q and Current Reports on Form 8-K (other than
        information furnished under Items 2.02 and 7.01, which is deemed not to be
        incorporated by reference in this Registration Statement). Any statement
        contained herein, in an amendment hereto, or in any document incorporated
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        deemed to be incorporated herein by reference shall be deemed to be modified
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        superseded for purposes of this Registration Statement to the extent that
        a
        statement contained herein or in any other subsequently filed document
        incorporated or deemed to be incorporated herein by reference, which statement
        is also incorporated herein by reference, modifies or supersedes such statement.
        Any such statement so modified or superseded shall not be deemed, except
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        modified or superseded, to constitute a part of this Registration
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      legality of the Common Stock offered under the Plan has been passed upon for
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      Company by Michael I. Oberlander, Esq., 8300 Maryland Avenue, St. Louis,
      Missouri 63105, Senior Vice President, General Counsel and Corporate Secretary
      of the Company. As of May 23, 2006, Mr. Oberlander was the beneficial owner
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      Law and the certificate of incorporation and the bylaws of Brown Shoe Company,
      Inc. (the &#8220;Company&#8221;).</font></div>
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      made, a party to any action or proceeding, civil or criminal, other than a
      shareholders&#8217; derivative action, by reason of being a director or officer of the
      corporation or serving any other entity in any capacity (at the request of
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      corporation), against judgments, fines, amounts paid in settlement and
      reasonable expenses, including attorneys&#8217; fees, in connection therewith, if such
      director or officer acted in good faith, for a purpose he or she reasonably
      believed to be in, or, in the case of service to any other entity, not opposed
      to, the best interests of the corporation and, in criminal proceedings, had
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      reasonable cause to believe his or her conduct was unlawful. A corporation
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      indemnify any person made, or threatened to be made, a party to a shareholders&#8217;
derivative action, in the circumstances and to the extent described in the
      preceding sentence, except that in such case no indemnification shall be made
      for a threatened action, or a pending action which is settled or otherwise
      disposed of, or any claim, issue or matter as to which such person shall have
      been adjudged to be liable to the corporation, unless and only to the extent
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      court finds that such person is fairly and reasonably entitled to such
      indemnification. Any person who has been successful, on the merits or otherwise,
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      entitled by reason of the certificate of incorporation, bylaws, or, if
      authorized by the certificate or bylaws, by reason of a resolution of the
      stockholders or the directors as of an agreement with the corporation, provided
      that no indemnification may be made to or on behalf of an officer or director
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      her acts were committed in bad faith or were the result of active and deliberate
      dishonesty and were material to the cause of action adjudicated, or that such
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      other entity if requested by the Company to serve as such, against any claim,
      liability or expense incurred as a result of such service, to the maximum extent
      permitted by law. To the extent that such employee or agent has been successful
      in the defense of a civil or criminal proceeding arising out of such service,
      such employee or agent shall be entitled to such indemnification. The bylaws
      also provide that such indemnification is not exclusive of any other
      indemnification to which such director, officer, employee or agent might be
      entitled, and authorize the Company to enter into agreements with any such
      director, officer, employee or agent, providing such rights of indemnification
      as the Board of Directors deems appropriate, provided that any such agreement
      shall not provide for indemnification of such a director or officer if a
      judgment or other final adjudication adverse to such director or officer
      establishes that his or her acts were committed in bad faith or were the result
      of active or deliberate dishonesty and were material to the cause of action
      adjudicated, or that he or she personally gained a financial profit or other
      advantage to which such director or officer was not legally entitled. Finally,
      the Company may purchase and maintain insurance to indemnify any such director,
      officer, employee or agent, to the maximum extent allowed by law, whether or
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      thereof) which, individually or in the aggregate, represent a fundamental change
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      registered) and any deviation from the low or high end of the estimated maximum
      offering range may be reflected in the form of prospectus filed with the
      Commission pursuant to Rule 424(b) if, in the aggregate, the changes in volume
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      paragraphs is contained in periodic reports filed with or furnished to the
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      on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized, in the County
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      fact and agents for him or her and on his or her behalf and in his or her name,
      place and stead, in any and all capacities to sign any and all amendments
      (including post-effective amendments) to this Registration Statement, and to
      file the same, with exhibits and any and all other documents filed with respect
      thereto, with the Securities and Exchange Commission (or any other governmental
      or regulatory authority), granting unto said attorneys, and each of them, full
      power and authority to do and to perform each and every act and thing requisite
      and necessary to be done in and about the premises in order to effectuate the
      same as fully to all intents and purposes as he or she might or could do if
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BWS Form S-8
As
      filed
      with the Securities and Exchange Commission on May 26, 2006
Registration
      No. 333-______
UNITED
      STATES
SECURITIES
      AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
Washington,
      D.C. 20549
FORM
      S-8
REGISTRATION
      STATEMENT
UNDER
THE
      SECURITIES ACT OF 1933
Brown
      Shoe Company, Inc.
(Exact
      name of registrant as specified in its charter)
New
                York
43-0197190
(State
                or other jurisdiction of incorporation or organization)
(I.R.S.
                Employer
Identification
                No.)
8300
                Maryland Avenue
St.
                Louis, Missouri 63105
(Address
                of Principal Executive Offices) (Zip
                Code)
Brown
      Shoe Company, Inc.
Incentive
      and Stock Compensation Plan of 2002, as amended
(Full
      title of the plan)
Michael
      I. Oberlander, Esq.
Senior
      Vice President, General Counsel and Corporate Secretary
Brown
      Shoe Company, Inc.
8300
      Maryland Avenue
St.
      Louis, Missouri 63105
(Name
      and
      address of agent for service)
(314)
      854-4000
(Telephone
      number, including area code, of agent for service)
CALCULATION
      OF REGISTRATION FEE
Title
                of securities
to
                be registered
Amount
                to
be
                registered
Proposed
                maximum offering
price
                per share
(1)
Proposed
                maximum
aggregate
                offering price
(1)
Amount
                of r
egistration
                fee
(1)
Common
                Stock, par value $3.75 per share
2,100,000
                shares
(2)
$36.86
$77,406,000
$8,282.44
(1)
Estimated
      solely for the purpose of calculating the registration fee, and based upon
      the
      average of the high and low prices of the Common Stock as reported on the New
      York Stock Exchange on May 19, 2006 in accordance with Rules 457(c) and 457(h)
      of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended.
(2)
This
      Registration Statement also relates to such indeterminate number of additional
      shares as may be issuable pursuant to antidilution provisions.
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REGISTRATION
      OF ADDITIONAL SHARES
PURSUANT
      TO GENERAL INSTRUCTION E
This
      Registration Statement registers an additional 2,100,000 shares of Common Stock,
      par value $3.75 per share (the "Common Stock"), for which a registration
      statement filed on this form relating to the same employee benefit plan is
      effective. Consequently, pursuant to General Instruction E of Form S-8, the
      contents of the Registration Statement on Form S-8 filed by Brown Shoe Company,
      Inc., Registration No. 333-89014, are incorporated by reference into this
      Registration Statement. Any statement contained in a document incorporated
      or
      deemed to be incorporated herein by reference shall be deemed to be modified
      or
      superseded for purposes of this Registration Statement to the extent that a
      statement contained herein or in any other subsequently filed document which
      also is or is deemed to be incorporated by reference herein modifies or
      supersedes such statement.
PART
      I
INFORMATION
      REQUIRED IN THE SECTION 10(a) PROSPECTUS
Item
      1. Plan Information.
Information
      required by Part I of Form S-8 to be contained in the Section 10(a) prospectus
      is omitted from this Registration Statement in accordance with Rule 428 under
      the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the "Securities Act"), and the Note
      to
      Part I of Form S-8.
Item
      2. Registrant Information and Employee Plan Annual Information.
Information
      required by Part I of Form S-8 to be contained in the Section 10(a) prospectus
      is omitted from this Registration Statement in accordance with Rule 428 under
      the Securities Act and the Note to Part I of Form S-8.
PART
      II
INFORMATION
      REQUIRED IN THE REGISTRATION STATEMENT
Item
      3.
Incorporation
      of Documents by Reference.
Brown
      Shoe Company, Inc. (the "Company" or "Registrant") hereby incorporates by
      reference into this registration statement the following documents:
(a)
The
      Registrant's Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended January 28,
      2006; and
(b)
The
      description of the Company's Common Stock, which is contained in the Company's
      Registration Statement on Form 10, as amended under cover of Form 8 filed on
      February 18, 1981.
In
      addition, all documents filed by the Registrant with the Securities and Exchange
      Commission pursuant to Sections 13(a), 13(c), 14 or 15(d) of the Securities
      Exchange Act of 1934 (the "Exchange Act") subsequent to the effective date
      of
      this Registration Statement, but prior to the filing of a post-effective
      amendment to this Registration Statement indicating that all
2
securities
        offered hereby have been sold or de-registering all securities then remaining
        unsold, shall be deemed to be incorporated by reference herein and to be
        a part
        hereof from the date of filing of such documents. These documents include
        periodic reports, such as Proxy Statements, Annual Reports on Form 10-K,
        Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q and Current Reports on Form 8-K (other than
        information furnished under Items 2.02 and 7.01, which is deemed not to be
        incorporated by reference in this Registration Statement). Any statement
        contained herein, in an amendment hereto, or in any document incorporated
        or
        deemed to be incorporated herein by reference shall be deemed to be modified
        or
        superseded for purposes of this Registration Statement to the extent that
        a
        statement contained herein or in any other subsequently filed document
        incorporated or deemed to be incorporated herein by reference, which statement
        is also incorporated herein by reference, modifies or supersedes such statement.
        Any such statement so modified or superseded shall not be deemed, except
        as so
        modified or superseded, to constitute a part of this Registration
        Statement.
Item
      4.
Description
      of Securities.
Not
      applicable.
Item
      5.
Interests
      of Named Experts and Counsel.
The
      legality of the Common Stock offered under the Plan has been passed upon for
      the
      Company by Michael I. Oberlander, Esq., 8300 Maryland Avenue, St. Louis,
      Missouri 63105, Senior Vice President, General Counsel and Corporate Secretary
      of the Company. As of May 23, 2006, Mr. Oberlander was the beneficial owner
      of
      54,668 shares of Common Stock.
Item
      6.
Indemnification
      of Directors and Officers.
The
      following summary is qualified in its entirety by reference to the complete
      text
      of Sections 715, 717 and 721 through 725 of the New York Business Corporation
      Law and the certificate of incorporation and the bylaws of Brown Shoe Company,
      Inc. (the "Company").
New
      York
      law authorizes a corporation to indemnify any person made, or threatened to
      be
      made, a party to any action or proceeding, civil or criminal, other than a
      shareholders' derivative action, by reason of being a director or officer of the
      corporation or serving any other entity in any capacity (at the request of
      the
      corporation), against judgments, fines, amounts paid in settlement and
      reasonable expenses, including attorneys' fees, in connection therewith, if such
      director or officer acted in good faith, for a purpose he or she reasonably
      believed to be in, or, in the case of service to any other entity, not opposed
      to, the best interests of the corporation and, in criminal proceedings, had
      no
      reasonable cause to believe his or her conduct was unlawful. A corporation
      may
      indemnify any person made, or threatened to be made, a party to a shareholders'
derivative action, in the circumstances and to the extent described in the
      preceding sentence, except that in such case no indemnification shall be made
      for a threatened action, or a pending action which is settled or otherwise
      disposed of, or any claim, issue or matter as to which such person shall have
      been adjudged to be liable to the corporation, unless and only to the extent
      the
      court finds that such person is fairly and reasonably entitled to such
      indemnification. Any person who has been successful, on the merits or otherwise,
      in the defense of a civil or criminal
3
proceeding
        as described above in this paragraph, shall be entitled to indemnification
        under
        New York law.
New
      York
      law provides that its statutory provisions relating to indemnification shall
      not
      be exclusive of any other indemnification to which a director or officer may
      be
      entitled by reason of the certificate of incorporation, bylaws, or, if
      authorized by the certificate or bylaws, by reason of a resolution of the
      stockholders or the directors as of an agreement with the corporation, provided
      that no indemnification may be made to or on behalf of an officer or director
      if
      a final adjudication adverse to the director or officer establishes that his
      or
      her acts were committed in bad faith or were the result of active and deliberate
      dishonesty and were material to the cause of action adjudicated, or that such
      officer or director personally gained a financial profit or other advantage
      to
      which he or she was not legally entitled.
The
      bylaws of the Company provide that the Company shall indemnify any director
      and
      officer, and may indemnify any employee or agent, of the Company, or of any
      other entity if requested by the Company to serve as such, against any claim,
      liability or expense incurred as a result of such service, to the maximum extent
      permitted by law. To the extent that such employee or agent has been successful
      in the defense of a civil or criminal proceeding arising out of such service,
      such employee or agent shall be entitled to such indemnification. The bylaws
      also provide that such indemnification is not exclusive of any other
      indemnification to which such director, officer, employee or agent might be
      entitled, and authorize the Company to enter into agreements with any such
      director, officer, employee or agent, providing such rights of indemnification
      as the Board of Directors deems appropriate, provided that any such agreement
      shall not provide for indemnification of such a director or officer if a
      judgment or other final adjudication adverse to such director or officer
      establishes that his or her acts were committed in bad faith or were the result
      of active or deliberate dishonesty and were material to the cause of action
      adjudicated, or that he or she personally gained a financial profit or other
      advantage to which such director or officer was not legally entitled. Finally,
      the Company may purchase and maintain insurance to indemnify any such director,
      officer, employee or agent, to the maximum extent allowed by law, whether or
      not
      the Company would otherwise have the power to indemnify such person.
The
      directors and officers of the Company are insured under a policy of directors'
and officers' liability insurance.
Item
      7.
Exemption
      From Registration Claimed.
Not
      applicable.
Item
      8.
Exhibits.
Reference
      is made to the Exhibit Index filed herewith.
Item
      9.
Undertakings.
(a)
The
      undersigned Registrant hereby undertakes:
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(1)
To
      file,
      during any period in which offers or sales are being made, a post-effective
      amendment to this registration statement:
(i)
To
      include any prospectus required by Section 10(a)(3) of the Securities Act of
      1933;
(ii)
To
      reflect in the prospectus any facts or events arising after the effective date
      of the registration statement (or the most recent post-effective amendment
      thereof) which, individually or in the aggregate, represent a fundamental change
      in the information set forth in the registration statement. Notwithstanding
      the
      foregoing, any increase or decrease in the volume of securities offered (if
      the
      total dollar value of securities offered would not exceed that which was
      registered) and any deviation from the low or high end of the estimated maximum
      offering range may be reflected in the form of prospectus filed with the
      Commission pursuant to Rule 424(b) if, in the aggregate, the changes in volume
      and price represent no more than a 20 percent change in the maximum aggregate
      offering price set forth in the "Calculation of Registration Fee" table in the
      effective registration statement; and
(iii)
To
      include any material information with respect to the plan of distribution not
      previously disclosed in the registration statement or any material change to
      such information in the registration statement.
Provided,
      however, that paragraphs (a)(1)(i) and (a)(1)(ii) do not apply if the
      information required to be included in a post-effective amendment by those
      paragraphs is contained in periodic reports filed with or furnished to the
      Commission by the Registrant pursuant to Section 13 or Section 15(d) of the
      Securities Exchange Act of 1934 that are incorporated by reference in the
      registration statement.
(2)
That,
      for
      the purpose of determining any liability under the Securities Act of 1933,
      each
      such post-effective amendment shall be deemed to be a new registration statement
      relating to the securities offered therein, and the offering of such securities
      at that time shall be deemed to be the initial bona fide offering
      thereof.
(3)
To
      remove
      from registration by means of a post-effective amendment any of the securities
      being registered which remain unsold at the termination of the
      offering.
(b)
The
      undersigned Registrant hereby undertakes that, for purposes of determining
      any
      liability under the Securities Act of 1933, each filing of the Registrant's
      annual report pursuant to Section 13(a) or Section 15(d) of the Securities
      Exchange Act of 1934 that is incorporated by reference in the registration
      statement shall be deemed to be a new registration statement relating to the
      securities offered therein, and the offering of such securities at that time
      shall be deemed to be the initial bona fide offering thereof.
(c)
Insofar
      as indemnification for liabilities arising under the Securities Act of 1933
      may
      be permitted to directors, officers and controlling persons of the Registrant
      pursuant to the foregoing provisions, or otherwise, the Registrant has been
      advised that in the opinion of the Securities and Exchange Commission such
      indemnification is against public policy as expressed
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in
        the
        Securities Act of 1933 and is, therefore, unenforceable. In the event that
        a
        claim for indemnification against such liabilities (other than the payment
        by
        the Registrant of expenses incurred or paid by a director, officer or
        controlling person of the Registrant in the successful defense of any action,
        suit or proceeding) is asserted by such director, officer or controlling
        person
        in connection with the securities being registered, the Registrant will,
        unless
        in the opinion of its counsel the matter has been settled by controlling
        precedent, submit to a court of appropriate jurisdiction the question whether
        such indemnification by it is against public policy as expressed in the
        Securities Act of 1933 and will be governed by the final adjudication of
        such
        issue.
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SIGNATURES
Pursuant
      to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, the Registrant certifies
      that
      it has reasonable grounds to believe that it meets all of the requirements
      for
      filing on Form S-8 and has duly caused this Registration Statement to be signed
      on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized, in the County
      of
      St. Louis, State of Missouri, on May 25, 2006.
Brown
      Shoe Company, Inc.
By:
/s/
      Michael I. Oberlander
Michael
      I. Oberlander
Senior
      Vice President, General Counsel and Corporate Secretary
POWER
      OF ATTORNEY
Each
      person whose signature appears below hereby constitutes and appoints Ronald
      A.
      Fromm, Andrew M. Rosen and Michael I. Oberlander and each of them (with full
      power to each of them to act alone), his or her true and lawful attorneys in
      fact and agents for him or her and on his or her behalf and in his or her name,
      place and stead, in any and all capacities to sign any and all amendments
      (including post-effective amendments) to this Registration Statement, and to
      file the same, with exhibits and any and all other documents filed with respect
      thereto, with the Securities and Exchange Commission (or any other governmental
      or regulatory authority), granting unto said attorneys, and each of them, full
      power and authority to do and to perform each and every act and thing requisite
      and necessary to be done in and about the premises in order to effectuate the
      same as fully to all intents and purposes as he or she might or could do if
      personally present, hereby ratifying and confirming all that said attorneys
      in
      fact and agents, or any of them, may lawfully do or cause to be done by virtue
      hereof.
Pursuant
      to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, this Registration Statement
      has been signed below by the following persons in the capacities indicated
      on
      May 25, 2006.
Signature
Title
/s/
                Ronald A. Fromm
Ronald
                A. Fromm
Chairman
                of the Board and Chief Executive Officer (Principal Executive
                Officer)
/s/
                Andrew M. Rosen
Andrew
                M. Rosen
Executive
                Vice President and Chief Financial Officer (Principal Financial
                Officer)
/s/
                Richard C. Schumacher
Richard
                C. Schumacher
Senior
                Vice President and Chief Accounting Officer (Principal Accounting
                Officer)
/s/
                Joseph L. Bower
J
oseph
                L. Bower
Director
/s/
                Julie C. Esrey
Julie
                C. Esrey
Director
/s/
                Carla C. Hendra
Carla
                C. Hendra
Director
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/s/
                Steven W. Korn
Steven
                W. Korn
Director
/s/
                Patricia G. McGinnis
Patricia
                G. McGinnis
Director
/s/
                W. Patrick McGinnis
W.
                Patrick McGinnis
Director
/s/
                Michael F. Neidorff
Michael
                F. Neidorff
Director
/s/
                Hal J. Upbin
Hal
                J. Upbin
Director
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INDEX
      TO EXHIBITS
Exhibit
Number
Exhibit
5.1
Opinion
                of Counsel.
23.1
Consent
                of Independent Public Registered Accountants.
23.2
Consent
                of Counsel (included in Exhibit 5.1).
24.1
Power
                of Attorney (included on Signature Page).
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