“Shoes, especially high heels, have some special functions. It makes a wearer look taller than the real height of the wearer. Therefore, many young ladies, who want to be looked taller, wear high heel with very tall heel. The other function of high heels is that it has strong attraction power for some male adult.“ […]
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Painfully fashionable : The consequences of wearing pointy shoes in medieval England [study]
It’s known that if you wear overly pointy shoes for long periods, you’re likely to damage your feet How long has this been going on? Was it prevalent in, say, medieval Cambridge, UK? To find out, researchers examined the human remains of 177 adult individuals (11th > 15th century) from four cemeteries located in Cambridge, […]
February mini-AIR: Felons’ footware, etc
The February issue of mini-AIR is out, with these items: 02 Imminent Events 03 IN THE MAGAZINE ITSELF: Ig then Psych 04 Stuck on a Shoe 05 Limerick Challenge: Felons’ Footware 06 Perspicacity Winner (to last month’s Research Limerick Challenge) 07 MORE IMPROBABLE: Madman, Egg, Sneezing, etc. 08 Temporal Landscape of Shoes Read it online. […]
Wearing High Heels as Female Mating Strategy [research study]
Comes a major advance, possibly, in the understanding of why some women wear high heeled shoes. A new study presents details: “Wearing High Heels as Female Mating Strategy,” Pavol Prokop and Jana Švancárová, Personality and Individual Differences, vol. 152, January 2020, 109558. The authors, at Comenius University and at the Slovak Academy of Science, Slovakia, […]