"Are you ready, Boots", by Maggie Alderson, is a short story, which story mainly takes place in London. It is a youthful environment in a financial world; with new fancy clothes, lots of drinks, champaign and parties. In continuation of that, it is also a superficial environment, where you are being judged by your look and the clothes you are wearing.

Even though the most of the story is in London, the opening, which is in medias res, is set in New York. The two friends, Lulu and Spencer, who are also two of the main characters, are shopping shoes. It is the first time the reader experiences the financial world and the consumer society, because Lulu is trying some Manolos, which is very expensive shoes. Even though Lulu is spending "two months' rent money on that four day trip to New York" the fact that she is actually buying such expensive shoes shows that she, at one point or another, is well-off. That is why I think it is people from the middle/upper classes.
Lulu is the......

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Title: Are You Ready, Boots?
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