Fashion is all about contrived obsolescence. Styles are here and gone in weeks and either you buy them or you don’t. It’s a shame but it’ll never change
Indeed walking a towpath in tall boots and jeans, jumpers and high heeled boots in the supermarket will never grab the headlines, but people here have grown used to seeing me in my tall boots - to the extent that one day when I was wearing hiking boots, one of the locals said he didn’t recognise me at first when he saw me from behind