Women and high heels — it's a pairing as old as time. These shoes may hurt the sh*t out of our feet, but that doesn't stop us from wearing them on any given night. Just take a look around the bar over ...

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 ...

It's a dilemma many women face when they go out — do they want to elongate their legs by wearing high heeled shoes for an event, or still be able to feel their feet at the end of the night? After ...

Michael Mwaniki stands at Plus Soles, a shoe store in Nairobi that mirrors a growing cultural revolution. Rows of sneakers line one wall, while the other has an array of heeled shoes—stilettos, kitten ...

In case you haven’t heard, high heels are tools of the devil (or patriarchy), engineered to destroy women’s health, hamper their movement and stoke their vanity. And if you don’t ditch them for flats ...

QUESTION When were high heels for ladies' shoes first introduced? The history of the heel is fascinating. It all started from the 'patten', a thick wooden or cork-soled undershoe attached by strings ...

OK, ladies, think fast: Do high heels empower women in the workplace, or do they oppress us and ultimately harm us? If your gut is giving you conflicting responses to that question, don’t worry — that ...

Professor Hylton B Menz receives funding from the National Health and Medical Research Council of Australia. Women are often told how the very high-heeled shoes they wear are doing them harm. But ...

London: If you need help from men on the road, wear high heels. This is the message from a new study, revealing that how the height of a woman's shoe heel influences how men behave towards her. The ...