Max Barnish has received no funding for this work or any related work, but participated in the 2016 petition to the UK Government raising awareness around issues related to high heel wear at ...

We may earn commission from links on this page, but we only recommend products we love. Promise. Dr. Robert K. Lee, board-certified podiatric surgeon and chief of podiatric surgery at the UCLA Santa ...

High heels are fashionable, but uncomfortable, and can even lead to chronic foot damage. At first glance, it doesn't make sense to favor footwear which harm and hurt feet, plus render it difficult to ...

Editor's Note: The paper detailing the experiments cited in this post was retracted in October 2019. Women’s shoes come in a wide array of heel heights. Shoes with the highest spike heels have been ...

Most high heels are uncomfortable. Even your best, most luxurious pair will leave your feet aching after a couple hours of walking. Sure, beauty is pain, and we make sacrifices for the sake of fashion ...

Is the high heel a tool of empowerment or a tool of the patriarchy designed to slow a woman down? This is a question that Antonia Saint Dunbar, a serial entrepreneur, asked herself back in 2014 while ...

There are plenty of reasons why women wear high heels today — to dress up an outfit or lengthen one's silhouette, for example — but centuries ago, the shoes served a much different purpose. High heels ...

High heels aren't often considered to be the most comfortable shoes in your closet, but sometimes you need or want to wear them. You're likely intimately familiar with the pain and blisters that can ...

High heels have been around for a very long time, and they likely aren't going anywhere any time soon. And although the type of shoe is truly evergreen, the popular styles of them change every year.