“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, ...

Johnny Weir wears 'em and other guys are catching on -- is the fad here to stay? Oct. 19, 2011 — -- Reports have been floating around for more than a year. Hairy legs atop 4-inch sticks. Bulging ...

PARIS — The well-heeled Marilyn Monroe reportedly once said if you give a girl the right shoes, she can conquer the world. The allure of high-heeled shoes is no secret among women, who have used them ...

For much of their history high heels were seen as a marker of an epic masculinity. When you think of high heels, your first thoughts almost certainly center around women. But for much of their history ...

Is the high heel a tool of empowerment or a tool of the patriarchy designed to slow a woman down? This is a question that Antonia Saint Dunbar, a serial entrepreneur, asked herself back in 2014 while ...

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 in ...

Update, October 14, 2019: The research upon which this story was based has been retracted due to “methodological weaknesses and statistical errors.” Cue a collective sigh from women everywhere: a new ...

Editor's Note: The paper detailing the experiments cited in this post was retracted in October 2019. Women’s shoes come in a wide array of heel heights. Shoes with the highest spike heels have been ...