The story starts in medias res. A woman named Lulu and her good friends Spencer and Betty are out shopping shoes after having had a lunch accompanied by two bottles of Chrystal in New York City.
Lulu is trying on some very high, very kinky boots and is really excited about them. She ends up buying them, though kind of regretting it several months later and not wearing them until later in the winter when she, one evening, goes out with Spencer and some of his friends. They go to a bar and here she meets a guy called Charlie. He is the perfect man; handsome, British, rich and very charming.
They start going out and Lulu is very fond of him. Though her friend Spencer finds him boring and not fun enough for his best friend, Lulu still accept Charlie’s offer to be his girlfriend and go meet his parents.
One evening Lulu wears the boots she wore the day they met and Charlie tells her how hideous and slutty he finds them. Then Lulu’s mind is made up: Charlie is a boring, and so wrong for her, so she ends up leaving him.
Lulu is the main character. She is a typical modern woman. Full of ambitions, and fashion-minded. She thinks she wants a rich, and perfect man, but finds herself wrong when she dumps Charlie. Although the story doesn’t exactly say she leaves Charlie, that is what I get from the last line in the story: “Are you ready boots?” I said to them. “Start walking.”
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