London, June 28 (IANS) An average woman in Britain spends a staggering 16,000 pounds on shoes in her lifetime, reveals a new survey which also shows that a quarter of the women rarely tell their partner about new shoes as ‘he wouldn’t understand’.
Girls purchase their first pair of shoes without their mother when they are 14. Thereafter, it is seven pairs a year for the rest of their lives, which brings the total to 469 pairs, Daily Express reported Monday.
An average pair costs 34.99 pounds, which means women spend 244.93 pounds each year and it totals 16,410 pounds (about $24,000) over 67 years.
The survey of 3,000 women was carried out by Gocompare.com.
The results reveal that the average woman has about 19 pairs of shoes – three pairs with heels, six pairs of flip-flops, sandals, three pairs of boots and four pairs of ‘foxy-style’ shoes. They also own two pairs of work shoes and another two or so ‘random’ purchases.
More than half of the women justify a purchase to themselves, but a quarter of the respondents rarely tell their partner about new ones as ‘he wouldn’t understand’.
‘Shoes are women’s one major weakness,’ said Hayley Parsons of Gocompare.
