One of the most significant changes in dress during my life (apart from the disturbing way skirt lengths have varied over the years!) is in footwear. Everybody wore leather shoes, boots or clogs. There were more cobbler's shops than you could poke a stick at! If anyone had told me that now we would be mainly wearing variations of what we then called 'Gym Pumps' made then of canvas and rubber and always either blue or white for tennis, I would not have believed it.
I'm a dinosaur, I still wear leather boots. The Trickers I am using at the moment cost £14 a pair 40 years ago and would leave very little change out of £150 today. The cost of soling and heeling now is just under £30 in Barlick..... They are still as new and my feet are fine thank you!
In case you're wondering, they have not been polished, just polish applied but no buffing. If I polish them they are like conkers!
