Gift Guide: Shoes shine

Christmas is a time to put a twinkle in your toes, when true love shines through in the gift of fabulous footwear

Christian Louboutin’s Pigalle Follie patents, €515

Window shopping on Dublin’s Cow’s Lane, my little boy’s hand in mine, my attention settles on a pair of Grenson’s Rose shoes. They jolt me back to a time when I was the age my son is now, a time when my daddy’s black-and-white golf shoes, with their brogue stitching and kiltie fringes, sat in the ...