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 ...

“I’ve always liked the aesthetic of a high heel,” said 51-year-old Rob Taylor, who runs the Instagram account Men’s Heels Revolution. “It’s a beautiful thing.” Growing up in the English countryside, ...

It’s a mid-week morning in New York City and the subway is packed with commuters. The Q train is standing-room-only and I can’t even reach a subway pole to hold onto. Balancing oneself for a long ride ...

If I could name one item of clothing that's tragically inaccessible to transmasculine people, it would have to be heels (shoes usually reserved for cis women). It's for that reason that I think my ...

When I brought my newborn home from the hospital, I picked out a special outfit for her, including tiny leather moccasins. My husband thought the shoes were a little silly, given that she wouldn’t be ...

When Henry Bae—cofounder of the shoe brand Syro—was younger, they remember wanting to rock heels out in public but being far too ashamed to do so. “I used to trail behind my family on our after-dinner ...

A French study has found that if you want a man at your feet you should wear stilettos. “Women’s shoe heel size exerts a powerful effect on men’s behavior,” says study author Nicholas Guéguen of the ...

The earliest known version of the high heel dates back to 10th-century Persia, where male soldiers wore heeled shoes while ...