I’m not a big shopper or one to boast about my bargain coups, but let me tell you about some boots I once bought.
We were living in London for an all-too-brief, magical time in the 1970s when I went shopping one day for a pair of chic, high-heeled, black leather boots. I found a fabulous pair in a Kings Road shop for €35, but the exchange rate then was $2.50 to the pound, so I knew they would make an $87.50 dent in our American budget, more than I ever paid for boots in those days.
But somehow my brain refused to compute when it came to those fabulous boots, and I couldn’t help thinking they were a real bargain at only 35 DOLLARS. And, I further rationalized, if I bought a pair of the same boots in brown as well, I’d have boots to go with everything in my wardrobe for only 70 DOLLARS!
So I bought both pairs, and feeling very chic as I walked around London in those fashionable boots — PRICELESS!
Dana Susan Lehrman