Fur-lined boots

In typical fashion manner where seasons are determined a year in advance, on a balmy September week, we are presented with THE supposed trend for boots this winter: shearling lining. My source on that bit of news is How To Spend It, the FT's weekend aspirational magazine.  Its name is so well-chosen, so crude in its assessment of what should still make us dream despite the credit crunch and the collapse of the economy - a world of excess, redolent of bored men and women desperate to spend their way into happiness, that it has to be admired.  With prices hovering around the £600 mark, those trendy boots need to be taken with a pinch of salt and require translation into affordable versions!

I must confess that I like Rupert Sanderson's leather and shearling bootie (£765):

New Look's high street version don't have quite the same look or quality but might do the trick and actually be wearable in the snow.

£64.99

 £49.99

Browse through their collection on the web for affordable interpretations of the same ideas:

New Look boots