What's the most you've spent on a pair of shoes?

I guess it would be (oh no, I am showing my age) $80.00 for a pair of ReeBok pumps in 1990.

Do you remember these? You squeezed the tougue of the shoe and pumped air into the supported areas of the sneaker.

Obviously none of you live in the Northeast.

But actually, my most expensive shoes I bought in Indiana. They're a $135 pair of John Fluevogs. So worth it though! I wear them all the time in the winter.

I'm buying a pair of Cydwoks though I tell you! Soon! Then I'll be up to $198. But I don't feel bad about it. I imagine I will have them for 5 years or more. How else can you make $200 last so long and get so much wear/use out it? I could spend $200 on a nice blazer that I only wear 3 times a year.

My Fluevogs are 4 years old and they still look great. If you take care of good shoes, they'll last a long time.

And now that I think about it, the Birkenstocks that I'm having to retire were about $130, also. But I've gotten a ton of wear out of them. I'm sure they'd still be in fine shape if I hadn't been dumb and let them get sopping wet so many times. Worth the price!

As a matter of fact, I thnk if I were wiser I would buy fewer pairs of $20 and $30 shoes and save that money to buy a couple good pairs of more expensive shoes. Cheaper shoes tend to be painful and don't hold up as well.

Lyris I'm so jealous you can swing dance. I have taken lessons here and there, but I am too tall. I really want to Lindy, but that would require a guy who can pick up and toss around a 5' 11" girl.

i guess i'm weird my cheap shoes have last me many years.

$450. Ridiculous? yes. On the positive side, they fit and look *perfect* on me! Personally, I'd rather have just a few pair of well-fitting shoes than dozens of pairs of cheap, but ill-fitting shoes.

That isn't to say that cheap shoes look cheap or don't fit well! But, unfortunately, I am not one who can wear cheap shoes.

I don't spend that much for any one pair but I tend to be a compulsive shoe buyer. I never seem to be able to buy just one pair. If I find a pair that feels really comfortable I will tend to buy 2-3 pairs so that when I run out of one pair I have an exact duplicate. I do that with jeans and tops too. I read somewhere that many in the fashion know will buy everything in multiples in case they can't ever find it again. Works for me.

Bratty

Tsk... Gadget, these are Granny shoes! What were you thinking? *pat shoulder*

http://shoematic.com/helle_women.htm

I'd never heard of Romu, had to look 'em up.

Jennifer, you're 100% right, i'm with you!

The most was  125 on some Jordan Team Strongs black red and white

air force ones that is.

my mum bought me 10 years ago a pair of marteen's - they costed 100 euro or something like that... i am never going to buy so expensive shoes again- as long as mum does it's ok ;) just kiding