Real Life Cinderella
Updated : Jul 23, 2009
A woman who lost the left shoe of a prized pair of £400 Christian Louboutin heels has launched a Cinderella style hunt to retrieve it.
Louise Bawn, 37, was inconsolable after realising the leopard-print shoe had fallen out of her handbag during a night out in Bristol, reports the Daily Telegraph.
She is retracing her footsteps around the city, stopping passers-by, handing out leaflets and even offering a reward for the shoe's safe return.
Mrs Bawn, from Bristol, said the high-heels hold special value to her because they were a Christmas gift from her husband Julian, 43.
She said: "When I saw them in the shop, I only dreamed of owning them, and I was over the moon when my husband got them for me as a present."
Mrs Bawn had been on a night out with her husband, a kitchen fitter, and his colleagues when she lost the red-soled shoe.
She had taken them off and put them in her handbag so she could switch to a pair of flat shoes and believes she lost one at a taxi rank or in the cab on the way home.
Since then, Mrs Bawn has spent every day sticking up 'lost' posters, questioning taxi drivers, inquiring in shops, and offering a £50 reward for its return.
Mrs Bawn added: "When I realised that I had lost my shoe I was devastated, totally inconsolable. I've called Louboutin and they don't make that fabric any more, so they're irreplaceable.
"I suppose it's rather like Cinderella, only I've already got my Prince Charming, it's just my shoe that I'm after."