Yesterday my friend and I went into the city on a hunt for new boots for my friend. She is vegetarian and therefore (quite rightly) will not wear leather. You would think that it would be relatively easy to find boots made of a synthetic material given the abundance of cheap shops that are in existence but it proved harder than I had expected.
The problem is that the so called ‘cheap’ shops – George, Dorothy Perkins, New Look, have all started to use leather for their shoes. This is a good thing for most people, after all, if you are going to buy cheap shoes you feel you are getting more of a bargain if the £20 shoes are made of leather.
So we searched everywhere. The task was further compounded by the need for the boots to have a fairly low heel and not too much of a point. All my immediate ideas came up with leather or styles that were not suitable. Until at last we ventured into the old lady’s paradise that is BHS. This is not a store I often frequent as I have seldom seen anything in there that I like. On the clothes front, that had not changed. But the shoes? Practically everything was manmade and in the sale. The boots my friend settled on were knee high and were marked down to £25 from £35. When we got to the till they came up as £17.50 which was even better. And I’d just been saying how I love it when you get to the till and the item comes up cheaper than the price tag says.
