Scone Shoes

Advantages: comfortable, better fitting shoes at reasonable prices
Disadvantages: limited range, most of them are quite ugly

...manufacturers: names include Hush Puppies, Brevitt, Comfitts, Equity, Adidas, Kickers, Ecco and Clarks. Admittedly, most of them are still ugly, there?s no point in lying to you. But there ARE stilettos. There ARE knee-length leather boots. There ARE strappy sandals, and some of them are even pretty. My shoe-fiend friends would probably curl their noses up at all of them, but then again they all have nice small slim feet that they can squeeze into pretty shoes: I have hobbit feet that hurt in everything, and am just glad to have found some shoes, any shoes, that aren?t totally hideous and that are comfortable. I ordered some red trainers, at £29.99 and some black leather ankle boots ? with heels! - at £49.99 and both are almost passable as ?normal? looking. They?re also extremely comfortable. You might not think that a simple quarter...

molelover 06.10.2004 · Read review
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Review of The Shoe Tailor

Dancing shoes on

Advantages: well thought out characters and a nice story
Disadvantages: likely to make you cry

...I first read Ballet Shoes when I was eight. It was the first of Noel Streatfield's books I'd read, and it remains my favourite. I put it away during my teenage years and forgot about it until Christmas 2007 when I watched the BBC adaptation with Emma Watson. I went to Indonesia and got the film on knock-off DVD, and immediately after watching I rang home to get my parents to order me a copy. It was a great welcome home. The book opens with 'Garnie' moving into a huge mansion, filled with fossils. She and her nurse (Nana) are moving in with her uncle. You don't really get any of their story until one day her uncle Matthew arrives home from a trip with a package, containing of all things... a baby! They agree to take the baby and name her Pauline. Once Pauline is a bit older, and Great Uncle Matthew (GUM) is away again, another package...

M.Newcastle 02.09.2009 · Read review
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Review of Ballet Shoes - Noel Streatfeild

boots

Advantages: great
Disadvantages: n/a

...Boots the chemist is a great shop when it come a shop that caters for a wide variety of your needs. You have the chemist, photo development, opticians along with the wide variety of products, from perfume, hair care, cosmetics, toiletries, baby care, sunglasses, baby clothes, medication, food, digital camera's and may other electrical beauty products. When it comes to Christmas they have a wide variety of gifts for people of all ages to suits a wide variety of price ranges. At Christmas boots is great as they have a special offer that they have every year, which is 3 for 2 which is when you get the cheapest product out of the three for free, which is fantastic as that is what you need when it comes to Christmas is to save money where possible. Boots also have a great invention called a boots advantage card which allows you to...

jo_field26 23.10.2008 · Read review
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Review of Boots (Shop)

Shoe in

Advantages: Comfortable
Disadvantages: Big, ugly, flamboyantly coloured

...As some of you may already be aware, the way to my heart is with handbags and shoes. Large cash deposits are also much appreciated but don?t come along all that often. As far as shoes are concerned, I like pretty shoes, generally with sparkly bits and, ideally, bows. However, for the past couple of weeks I?ve been limping in the manner of a geriatric who has recently had a hip replaced. This could be due to the fact that I attempted to kick a 6 ton boat off a rock (that some other incompetent had wedged it on, I hasten to add) or it could be down to years of wearing shoes that are too tight, too cramped, too high, or just weighed down with too many bows. It had got to the stage that I was limping so badly that my knee had become quite sore as a result of walking awkwardly on my left foot, and I really thought that ropes and some...

tallulahbang 04.08.2007 · Read review
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Review of Crocs Cayman Shoes

Boots - the Store

Advantages: Quality products all under one roof
Disadvantages: None

...Everybody's favourite High Street chemist and beauty store! The Boots Company PLC is a chain of high street stores known for their pharmacy and beauty/health products. You can find a Boots on just about every high street in Britain. In fact Boots has approximately 1,500 stores in the UK and abroad. This is the thing I like most about it, you are always guaranteed to find a store wherever you are in the country which makes it easy when you need to buy a repeat brand or just need to pop into one quickly because you have left your toothbrush at home on a weekend away. Boots was founded in Nottingham in 1849 by a gentleman called John Boot, hence the name and turned into a chain by his son Jesse. Boots stores are very easy to spot and recognize on the high street. They include a big blue sign with Boots written on it in cursive white...

Spottydog11 24.09.2008 · Read review
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Review of Boots

Green Wellie Shoes

Advantages: Dry feet
Disadvantages: None I have found yet

...green wellies through to multi-coloured and patterned ones; from traditional boots through to shoes and clogs. The range for ladies is the Jolie range with Jolie Wellington Boots, Jolie Ankle Boots and Jolie Clogs which all come in bright colours and patterns. In fact, I opted for the Buckingham Shoe which is a shoe version of the well known green wellie being made in exactly the same way. I should mention that it does also come in navy blue. It is made of PVC so is fully waterproof but, like wellies, has a cotton lining for comfort. It also comes with the same type of substantial sole so you feel quite safe in slippery conditions. I have to say that they have already been well worn as my main task after I bought them was to cut the grass. I hesitate to say 'lawn' as by this time the grass had grown so long that it more...

Minha 13.11.2006 · Read review
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Review of Willowdale Jolie Shoes

Shoes, shoes, shoes....wahahaha!

Advantages: lots of cheap, high quality shoes!
Disadvantages: customer service not great!

...shoes as they will only get covered in paint, snot or worse. These shoes cost me £3.99 in the sale and what a fabulous buy. PRODUCTS + PRICE ---------------------------- In this store you can get a lot for your money. A pair of flat shoes range from anything between £2.99 and £9.99, high heels range from between £4.99 and £12.99, boots are about £20 for a good pair and sandals between 99p and £4.99. For the men you can get a great pair of trainers for between £9.99 and £19.99, walking boots for about £9.99 or smart shoes for about £25, sandals range between £2.99 and £14.99 Kids can get miniature versions of the adults shoes for a fraction of the price. A pair of trainers is about £6.99, shoes about £3.99 and sandals about £1.99. These prices are just a basic price and obviously they do range below and above these prices...

leofluffy69 14.09.2007 (13.09.2007) · Read review
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Review of Shoe Zone

* In Who's Shoes ? *

Advantages: Good Acting , Ideal For A Sleepover
Disadvantages: Predictable At Times

...In Her Shoes had been on my to-buy DVD list for some time , and so while I was passing through Woolworths one day , I noticed it was on sale for £5. So I bought it. In Her Shoes stars Cameron Diaz , Toni Collette and Shirley Maclaine. The dvd features a blonde Cameron Diaz in jeans and a revealing green top , sitting on a sofa and facing sideways , giving the camera a flirtatious pose. By her side is Toni Collette sitting with her legs cross on the same sofa , wearing a black suit , messy hair. There is a dog to her right , with a pair of shoes in it's mouth. Between the two women are the words " Friends. Rivals. Sisters ". Heat magazine has given this movie 5 stars. In her Shoes was filmed in 2005 in America and directed by Curtis Hanson . The film is based on the novel "In Her Shoes" by Jennifer Weiner although the screen play...

xdonzx 02.06.2008 · Read review
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Review of In Her Shoes (DVD)

Boots!

Advantages: You can buy most things here
Disadvantages: Some things are slightly more expensive than other places

...Ive been thinking about writing an op on Boots for months, but theres just a million and one things to say about it, so Ive been holding off. But since Ive been gone for such a long time I might aswell come back with some big ops! "Boots The Chemist" is one of the best known retail names in the UK, providing health & beauty products that "enhance personal wellbeing." This covers everything from home essentials like toothpaste and deoderant to high end makeup products from Chanel and Yves Saint Laurent. Boots employ around 75,000 people and their products are sold in 130 countries worldwide. As well as retailing, they have international sales and marketing operations and also develop and manufacture their own products. They have loads of their own ranges, such as No7, 17, and Natural Collection to name just a few. Boots stores...

NataliePhelan 21.03.2005 · Read review
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Review of Boots Boots

Merrell Siren Shoe

Advantages: Excelent support and ventilation
Disadvantages: Non that I have been able to identify as yet

...an excellent choice of brands and product sets from major brands like the North Face and Berghaus and smaller niche brands such as Arcteryx and Eider), the staff were of great assistance. Having gone in initially to look at a decent pair of walking boots for completing the National Three Peaks challenge, I not only received good advice on boots, but the staff were also interested in the training I was doing, making suggestions to how I can improve. The staff took the time out to spend over 1 hour fitting many different makes and models of boots to my foot, to ensure that the boots I bought were the best fitting to my foot I tried boots from Scarpa, Meindl and Salomon and eventually purchased a pair for the Scarpa Ranger boots. While I was having my boots fitted, another staff member asked whether I can considered waterproof and softshell jackets...

roddy2410 10.11.2009 · Read review
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Review of Merrell Siren Ventilator Women's Walking Shoes