A pair of indicia that aid a child in orienting shoes or any article of wearing apparel that has a first section for one appendage and a second section for another appendage. The first indicium is an image that indicates a first direction while a second indicium indicates a second direction. The second direction is substantially collinearly contradictory to the first direction. Children know that shoes or articles of wearing apparel are properly oriented when first indicium and the second indicium are substantially collinearly contradictory.