This riddle says a woman buys a brand-new pair of shoes but never wears them. Why would someone buy shoes and then never put them on?
The intended answer is that she bought the shoes for someone else.
The question never says the shoes were for her. She could have purchased them as a gift for a daughter, friend, relative, or anyone else.
The trick is the assumption that buying an item automatically means buying it for yourself. In everyday life, people buy clothes, shoes, and other personal items for other people all the time.
Once you remove that assumption, the puzzle becomes straightforward: she owns the purchase for a moment, but the shoes were never meant to be worn by her.
