Folkestone Mayor visits Lacies shop to unveiling our very own Kinky Boots Blue Plaque Now we are truely famous at Lacies folkestone, the souths only transgender store.
Story by Ray Duff – On Friday Folkestone Town Mayor, Cllr Nicola Keen and a crowd of well-wishers gathered for the unveiling of a Blue Plaque in Dover Road marking the story of the originator of the famous ‘Kinky Boots’ factory story, Sue Sheppard.
Cross-dressers, drag queens, and trans persons attended the unveiling, including ‘Nicola Devreux, from Tonbridge, who has just become ‘Miss Transliving, runner-up 2023’, and a huge fan of the whole Kinky Boots story and Heather Mackenzie, a trans person all the way from Washington State, in the USA.
Folkestone Mayor visits Lacies shop
Those attending were told the true tale of to how it was Sue, who first phoned Steve Pateman, who was also in attendance, back in 1999.
She recalled: “I was the person who originally contacted Steve with the idea of making women’s shoes and boots for men and cross-dressers.”
Steve recounted how, whilst initially rather skeptical, his shoe factory W.J.Brookes Ltd a traditional men’s only shoe factory in East Barton, Northants, was at that time in financial difficulties and may have had to close.
Updating the Kinky Boots Story The Kent Connection 2025 Edit:
February 5th 2025 we have updated the story behind the film and musical to include more details of how Sue came to own Fantasyshopping and start Lacies store and how she first contacted Steve Pateman. Click Here
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