The internet gives us access to so many things previously unavailable to most of
us and when you think the world-wide web is a concept only invented twenty years ago the changes it has made to all our lives is extraordinary.
On something as mundane as viewing shoes it is now possible to look at what the super-rich buy from the small private boutique manufacturers that previously were in private viewing only shops tucked away in Paris, Milan, London and Rome.
These shops still exist but they are the sort of places where the shop front windows have only a minimum display and where you only enter if you already look a million dollars and have the confidence to look at shoes and boots that start in price at several hundred dollars or pounds.
Looking for shoes on the internet is like looking for any other item, you can search for the cheapest and you can search for the most expensive. No matter if it is a million dollar diamond encrusted mobile phone or hand stitched alligator skin made to measure boots at ten thousand dollars it's all there to be found.
Whether you can afford it or not is a completely different matter! There are shoes that are so expensive only the very wealthy can afford to buy and that line of research will inevitably take you down the road of discovering the strange fact about certain mega rich people who have spent literally millions of dollars on thousands of shoes often from just one designer.
The late widow of the President of the Philippines is an obvious example as was the wife of the President of Argentina. But there are plenty of more outlandish examples mostly in the world of pop music, cinema and even highly successful authors where the obsession for shoe buying seems almost a mental illness.
One women buys up to eighty pairs at a time of one designer's shoes and she flies from the United States to Paris just to do that. So far she has spent three million dollars with this designer on shoes alone which must make her the world's best private shoe customer and him a very happy designer.
Many have speculated the amount of money the average woman spends on shoes in her lifetime. We must assume these figures are only relevant to wealthy western nations as it appears to be about thirty thousand pounds per person. The number of pairs an adult gets through in spending that amount is just under five hundred although this does not take into account the vast number worn as a growing child.
Women have far greater choices of style compared with men and the popular range of ankle boots is just one example.
Ankle boots look smart and sexy with any type of dress be it jeans or party frock and they come in all shapes, sizes, patterns and colours.