These shoes were made for buying
Move over Imelda Marcos-Julie Hastings is now top of the shoe league! For Julie, 33, a Senior Information Assistant in the University of 海角直播鈥檚 Learning Resource Centre (LRC), owns a staggering 47 pairs of size-sixes.
Julie鈥檚 penchant for shoes came under the spotlight recently during a day of fund-raising for Comic Relief organised by LRC staff, which included sponsored Karaoke, juggling and guessing the total of Julie鈥檚 vast shoe collection. The day raised 拢205.
Julie, from Middlesbrough, said: 鈥淥nly two staff members guessed the correct total. What they didn鈥檛 know was that I gave away twenty pairs to Oxfam before Comic Relief, so no-one would have guessed over 60!
鈥淚鈥檝e loved shoes since I was secondary school in Eston. Your shoe size doesn't change; it's the one constant in your life, so shopping for shoes is easy and fun. My favourites are a 拢25 pair of purple boots, as they're different and trendy鈥�.
Colleague Joanne Naylor, also a Senior Information Assistant in the LRC added: 鈥淛ulie鈥檚 not known as the Imelda Marcos of the Library for nothing! But she鈥檚 not completely obsessed, as she showed by giving some shoes to charity.鈥�