In a small study, dogs experienced both stabilization and destabilization of their balance upon hearing angry or happy human ...

Women have been flocking to social media to reveal the wild ways that they got used to wearing high heels for long periods of time, including doing chores for hours while donning the famously ...

High heels are falling out of favor among French women, with comfort and casual styles like trainers and flat boots on the rise. The trend has been accelerated by COVID-19 and a shift towards ...

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 ...

Wearing high heels may seem attractive and make you feel taller and sexier, but at what cost? High-heeled shoes can create a variety of foot problems, reduce stability, and increase the chance of ...

Frequently wearing high heels could help you walk more efficiently in flat shoes, a new study found. Researchers at the University of Texas at Austin and Georgia Institute of Technology found that ...

Anyone who’s ever wobbled around awkwardly in high heels may be surprised by the findings of a much-discussed biomechanics study of the footwear. In the study, young women and men who donned ...

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 ...

The high-heeled shoe, popular among men in pre-revolutionary France, is losing favour among women on the streets of Paris. The once familiar click of stiletto on cobble is giving way to the silence of ...

While holding a 3-foot-long cane behind my back, I walked the plank — wobbling along a narrow wooden platform in a pair of hot pink, 4-inch pumps that I’d dug out from the back of my closet hours ...