> If your boots are beautiful but your toes are getting frost-bitten, they aren't good boots! Reminds me of a saying that a Scottish woman taught me: "All fur

> If your boots are beautiful but your toes are getting frost-bitten, they aren't good boots! Reminds me of a saying that a Scottish woman taught me: "All fur coat and no knickers" Although, as a Canadian, I can relate to your idiom a bit more.