However this was about using Tzedkah Money for $180 pair of shoes
Actually, it was originally about any Shabbos shoes, and I made a side point that $100 is not always excessive, and I mentioned $180 shoes as an extreme example. If we can agree that $60 for a pair of solid kids’ shoes, partially subsidized by tzeddakah money, and partially by store discount, so that a child doesn’t have to feel like a nebach, then we’ve gotten somewhere