I was chatting with a friend online when she mentioned something about her “shoe collection”.

Me: wah u got a COLLECTION of shoes??!

Me: how many??

Friend: errrm can i dun say

Me: cannot

Friend: well even though i have alot i only wear my trusted few

Friend: onkie.. the nmber is ard 100

Me: …

I’m not easily rendered speechless, but there I was stunned. The first thing that came to my mind was Imelda Marcos, whom I remember had more than 100 shoes. (Turns out she had more than 1000.)

Then I wondered - what if every innocent-looking girl I knew actually has a cache of shoes stashed away at home? I had to do a survey.

My questions:
1. How many pairs of shoes do you have?
2. Is that enough?
3. How many would be enough?

1. How many pairs of shoes do you have?

Most respondents had between 10 and 30 pairs, and mostly around 20. The lowest has 5, a few had around 50, and one friend claimed that her mom has 300. She herself has 30.

Seems like most of my female friends aren’t crazy about shoes.

2. Is that enough?

The overwhelming majority of answers ranged from “no” to “of course not!” or “never enough!”
The reason why they don’t have more is either because they can’t afford it, or they can’t find more that are suitable or they really like.

3. How many would be enough?

The majority had the exact same reply: “the more the merrier!”

And when I told them about the friend with 100 shoes, what surprised me most was that none of those I asked found it shocking, and in fact a few were rather envious.

Oh well. Women.

p.s. Feel free to tell me how many pairs of shoes you have in the comments!