A passion for fashionable feet

WHEN a court heard how a Dublin woman tumbled down the stairs after the heel snapped on her expensive boots, her pain was felt by women everywhere.

Not only did Lindsay McCormack suffer shock, bruises and the throbbing of a badly sprained ankle, but she had to break the second heel so she could limp away safely to fetch help. Two bootiful boots rendered uninhabitable in one fell swoop. Ouch.

The fact she had spent €250 on the faulty footwear and worn them a mere 32 times only added to the agony.