Oh yes... I will never get over it... I always spend a lot in the Nine West sale.
Everything had to be sensible and and durable I can still remember trying to break a pair of shoes when I was 10. Horrible like orthopeadic shoes.

My mother is very very puritan... like the ones on Black adder 1.

One of those brits that takes even their hobbies seriously like fell walking at 3 degrees in pouring rain.

Hedonism? oh no