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The first high-heeled shoes were worn in the 15 th century in Venice. Some say they were worn by aristocratic women as a status symbol, while others say they kept feet dry in flooded areas. In the ...

Gueguen's study had 19-year-old female volunteers wearing black shoes with heels that were 0.5cm (0.2 inches) or 5cm (2 inches) or 9cm (3 1/2 inches) high. Then they asked men between the ages of ...

Men respond differently to women in high heels. This could be because women behave differently when they're wearing heels. Women's rights advocates object to heels, but some say they empower women ...

With offices reopening, and parties and weddings back underway -- it's the moment of truth for women who claim to have ditched their high heels for good. NY Post photo composite Cindy Grosz feels ...

What makes a heel perfect is how it complements your lifestyle—teetering stiletto or not. Ahead, shop the 15 best designer high-heel favorites from Gucci to Gianvito Rossi. Our Favorite Designer ...

As women normally walk differently from men, high heels may help exaggerate the particularly feminine aspects of gait. What these shoes do is make women walk even more like women.

No more blisters! No more foot pain! No more high heels! More than 100,000 people have signed a petition calling for a ban on company dress codes that force women to wear heels at work.

In their recent study, entitled "High heels as supernormal stimuli: How wearing high heels affects judgements of female attractiveness", the psychologists compared ratings of women walking in ...