Women’s £16k shoe bill
THE average woman will spend more than £16,000 on shoes in her lifetime, research reveals.
Girls buy their first pair without mum at 14, then seven pairs a year for the rest of their lives, amounting to 469 pairs.
Spending £34.99 on an average pair means women fork out £244.93 each year and £16,410 over 67 years.
The survey of 3,000 women, by Gocompare.com, shows that the average woman has about 19 pairs of shoes – three pairs with heels, six pairs of flip-flops, sandals, ballet pumps or wedges, three pairs of boots and four pairs of “foxy-style” shoes for nights out.
They also have two pairs of work shoes and another two or so “random” purchases.
Four in 10 women say they judge another female by the shoes she has on.
More than half find it easy to justify a purchase to themselves but a quarter rarely tell their partner about new ones as “he wouldn’t understand”.
Hayley Parsons, of Gocompare, said: “Shoes are women’s one major weakness.”
