In an episode of Sex and the City, Manolo Blahnik-obsessed columnist Carrie Bradshaw calculates that she has blown around $40k on her addiction, and is consequently about to become homeless (“I will literally be the old woman who lived in her shoes!” she wails upon her epiphany).
That was back in the Nineties: in today’s money, that’s close to $100k, or on this side of the pond, £78k, depending on which way the currency rates are swinging.
