“A GREAT MISTAKE”

Dominion, Volume 28, Issue 104, 26 January 1935, Page 17

“A GREAT MISTAKE”

Wearing of High-heeled Shoes

The wearing of high-heeled shoes by women was criticised by Professor John Fraser Edinburgh, when lie lectured to members attending the autumn convention of the Incorporated Society ot Chiropodists, belli in Edinburgh. „ “There i.s not the slightest doubt, said Professor Fraser, “that the temlenev of the present day to u s e high heels is a very great mistake.” From file point of view of comparative anatomy, the matter wen I ’, back to an experiment rejected for obvious reasons millions and millions of rears ago. and here we were putting back the hands of the clock and trying to repeat something which a very wise . race of creatures hiul realised w-js harmful* He often wondered whether the lady of to-day who used the high bee] and threw her weight forward on the front of the foot realised that in so doing she was mimicking a monkey of very ancient date, the semnopithetic ape. and he also wondered whether she realised that its successors had tried to overcome difficulties experienced by that animal by putting their heel down. If we could only begin to adopt footwear which had scarcely a heel at ah, a large measure of our foot disabilities would disappear.

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