It needs to be said, that women's "fashion" shoes...regardless of what they cost (all of them in other words)...are probably the most notorious example of how manufacturers rip off their clients. There is not a single brand that I have ever seen that does not use "paper mache" insoles. Not a single brand that does not use plastic (and hard, impact transmitting plastic, at that) heels.
And, more importantly, not a single brand that respects the structure of the foot and the health of the wearer. 99% of the problems women have with their feet...both as young women and later on in life...are directly as a result of wearing shoes made on lasts that bear no anatomical or physiological relationship to real feet. Fallen metatarsal arches, plantar warts, bunions, hammer toes, the list is nearly endless.
What a bill of goods women have been sold! What a nightmare they have bought into.