HIGH HEELS.

Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXIII, Issue 4456, 21 August 1922, Page 4

HIGH HEELS.

FAVOURED BY A LONDON

FHYSICIAKt

There is a tendency at the moment to condemn high heels. This, in my opniion, is ,a f;act to be regretted, for a number of very tangible reasons can be advanced in favour of modern feminine footwear.

To begin with, there is the question of symmetry. Now, it is rare to see a country girl with the symmetrical leg and the shapely ankle which are such a common, and by no means unpleasing, feature pf town life. Why is this 1 It is because the high Keel causes all t,he muscles of the caJjf to become contracted, thus aiding the development of these muscles.

Country girts in the main wear Tow 'heels and heavy footwear. As a rule they walk farther than town girls, so that their lack in the direction I have indicated is not due to want of exercise. Some people would suggest that it is because town girls walk on even surfaces that they are more graceful than their country cousins. My own view, however, is that much of their grace of carriage is due to the fact that they wear high heels.

Symmetry of outline is beyond dispute in the case of; Frenchwomen, and they certainly go in for high heels. It is sometimes said that one of the faults of the ihigh heel is that it throws too much of the wearer's Weight on to the toes. But to proclaim this a fault is to commit an error. Ballet dancers dance op their toes, yet the symmetry pf their limbs is beyond question.