High heels are powerful. They change posture, boost confidence, and remain deeply embedded in fashion, work culture, and ...

High heels on Sandra Bullock's tootsies. Photo by Eamonn M. McCormack/Getty Images for BFI Roman Mars’ podcast 99% Invisible covers design questions large and small, from his fascination with rebar to ...

What if we told you that high heels were originally made exclusively for men? In a time when stilettos and platforms are often associated with female style and female sexuality, that fact might come ...

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 ...

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 ...

In the ever-shifting fashion sphere, where trends wax and wane with the changing seasons, one particular change has caught the eye of experts of late: a gradual decline in popularity of high heels.

Editor's Note: The paper detailing the experiments cited in this post was retracted in October 2019.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 ...