成人快手

成人快手 Leicester's Julie Mayer has 68 pairs of shoes. Her husband, Tony Wadsworth, has six.

Julie King, Head of Fashion at De Montfort University in Leicester, has over 100.

Tony is staggered that the women need anything near as many as they have. Julie doesn't understand how Tony can function with so few.

Shoes provoke all sorts of reactions. For some they are merely utilitarian bits of material that keep the wet and cold out. For others they are real fashion statements.

Julie says of shoe-buying: "It's an obsession... For women you have so many potential styles you can wear.

"When you start looking at boots, their different colours, styles and fabrics... the choice is endless."

Adrenalin Rush

Julie admits that she gets an adrenalin rush when she buys an expensive pair.

"If they're particularly gorgeous and you put them on your feet for the first time and you HAVE to have them...well, it's easy to get addicted to buying them.

"I bought four pairs on holiday in New York a few months ago."

But the shoe acquiring propensities of the two Julies fade into insignificance by the side of the notorious Imelda Marcos. In 2001 she opened a museum in which most of the exhibits are her own footwear.

The Marikina City Footwear Museum in Manila contains hundreds of pairs of shoes, many of them found in the presidential palace when Imelda and her husband, President Ferdinand Marcos, fled the Philippines in 1986.

Try to resist impulse buying!

An Object of Beauty

"This museum is making a subject of notoriety into an object of beauty," Mrs Marcos told reporters.

The museum management hopes it will help attract tourism to Marikina, a district known as the shoe capital of the Philippines.

"They went into my closets looking for skeletons, but thank God, all they found were shoes, beautiful shoes," a smiling Mrs Marcos said, wearing a pair of locally made silver shoes for the day.

"More than anything, this museum will symbolise the spirit and culture of the Filipino people.

"Filipinos don't wallow in what is miserable and ugly. They recycle the bad into things of beauty," she said.

High Heel Confidence

Fashion expert Julie says she never feels guilty about buying shoes because she always wears them, and she particularly loves high heels:

"High heels make you feel very good. They change your posture, make you walk with dignity. Depending on the height of the heels they make you feel more confident."

She thinks men are no different to women when it comes to shoes. The evidence is still under scrutiny!