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The Power of the High Heel
The heel is so tied up in webs of gender and sex and power. But when it comes to the appeal of the heel, it's actually not very complex psychology. Women wear high heels today because they want to be as tall as men. Men tried high heels in the 70s and why didn't it stick? To condense Elizabeth Similak's research, men's heels in the 1970s were too tied up in subculture. Exoticizing elements kept it on the fringe.
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