While some women try to divide the female sex into shoe women or bag women, no item of adornment has inveigled its way into our psyche like the boots shoes. Cinderella without her glass shoe? A nobody. Dorothy before she put on her ruby slippers? Left to moulder alone in Kansas. And can you imagine Hans Christian Andersen’s doomed Karen forced to dance to her death because of her fascinati
the children or even Flopsy the pet rabbit; it’s time to turn your divorce lawyer’s attention to this thorny question: when a marriage fails, who gets custody of the shoes? No, seriously. It’s all about the heels. Daniel Shak, a US hedge fund manager, is currently suing his ex-wife, Beth, for 35 per cent of her collection of footwear (comprising an admittedly gobsmacking 1,200 pa