Modern-day Cinderella Looks for Shoe

37-year old Louise Bawn of Bristol, England was out for a night on the town and had changed her high heels for flats to relieve her aching feet. At home, she realized one shoe was missing from her purse. The £400 pair of Christian Louboutin shoes had been a gift from her husband. Brawn said she would go to any lengths to get the shoe back, and has retraced her steps, handed out flyers, and offered a reward for the safe return of the missing shoe. She has even places a classified ad with a picture of the shoe’s mate.
"When I realised that I had lost my shoe I was devastated, totally inconsolable.

"I've called Louboutin and they don't make that fabric any more, so they're irreplaceable.

"I suppose it's rather like Cinderella, only I've already got my Prince Charming, it's just my shoe that I'm after."

Link -via Arbroath

A later story revealed that Bawn owns over 100 pairs of shoes! Link

I just don't understand people's fasination with shoes.
If I could wear my flipflops year round and not freeze, I would only have a single pair of shoes.
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100 pairs of shoes! and this pair worth £400, that could total up to an obscene amount of money, sorry, but I've no sympathy with the woman, and I'm sure the poorer people of Bristol couldn't give a damn about her shoe either.
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I consider myself pretty average when it comes to clothing. When my husband asked me to count my shoes, I was surprised to find I have 42 pair! Yikes! (But I live in New England, so I've go to be prepared for every kind of weather.)
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I'm a dude and in my 'heyday' I had well over over 25 pairs of shoes, and that ain't that much. If I was one of those multi millionaire types, I'd totally splurge and buy hundreds of shoes, mostly vintage and release Nike sneakers.
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It's worth 400 pounds for designer shoes. They're much better made and well fitting designer shoes do NOT hurt your feet. It's the cheap shoes that give you blisters. I also think it's ridiculous how much hostility there seems to be over someone using their money to buy something that makes them happy. It's their money, they can do whatever they want with it.
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Cuimnhe, had you finished the first sentence, you would realize the folly of your comment. She "had changed her high heels for flats to relieve her aching feet".

Yes, she has the right to fritter away her money on expensive shoes. She has the right to be as shallow as she wants. Nobody's going to feel all that sorry for her. She sounds a little spoiled.
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She does sound pretty spoiled. I own two pairs of shoes. One for going to town and for running and another which is a pair of boots, for choring, hiking, etc. And anyway, if you have So much money,what on earth would possess you to just buy hundreds of shoes.
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