Mother courage
Short shrift shoe shopping: In which I get mauled in a sales brawl
Why are children’s shoes so expensive? You can’t get a decent pair for under €50. Even then, you never get the shoes you want, but whatever style the shop happens to have in the size and width fitting you need.
Don’t like them? Travel the 50 miles to the next children’s shoe shop with your fingers crossed for something nicer, or let them go barefoot. And so it was that my first darling ...
