The papers are full of stories of the wives of Taiwan's business elite chartering jets for European shopping trips on which they sometimes spend more than NT $ 10 million each, and of businesswomen who buy an entire cowhide to custom-make a single pair of shoes.
見諸報端，台灣企業貴婦包機前往歐洲「血拼」，一人單次可以花掉上千萬台幣；女企業家為訂做一雙鞋，可以買下一整張牛皮。