Autumn-shoes-shopping

Ever since my arrival I have been surprised and amazed by the fashion of Novosibirsk street life. Especially women and girls seem to be very aware of the latest fashion and give welcome colour next to the somewhat grey and depressing Soviet architecture. But most of all I am fascinated by the height of heels, most Russian women balance daily on shoes with heels with at least 10 cm in length, and more than often, only 2 cm in width. It is not strange to see a girl sinking away in the mud pavements, forcing her to walk like a ballerina.
Today I had planned to go to the regional library together with a Russian classmate, I have the feeling that I don’t master Russian well enough to come across the guard, so I had asked her to accompany me. Whether there had been some kind of miscommunication or simply a Masha’s disinterest in libraries, I don’t know, but instead we went for autumn-shoes-shopping. We went in and out all shoe shops on Karl Marx Prospect, must have been more than a dozen.
Masha explained me the necessity of autumn shoes, as opposed to summer and winter-shoes. I guess back home there is not such a great difference, autumn and winter-shoes are the same I would say. But here, in Siberia, you need autumn shoes that protect you against the rain, and winter shoes that keep out the cold, the latter having fur inside and often sued, the prior of leather or something that looks like it (plastic).
Already having bought two pairs of shoes in the past three weeks, a pair of summer-shoes (or autumn in my imagination) and winter shoes, Mascha convinced me that I do need to find a pair of shoes for the coming month, the autumn month. A hard task, or maybe I should try a pair of balancing shoes?!