High heels on Sandra Bullock's tootsies. Photo by Eamonn M. McCormack/Getty Images for BFI Roman Mars’ podcast 99% Invisible covers design questions large and small, from his fascination with rebar to ...

You could be forgiven for thinking that high heeled shoes were constructed purely to torture women into feeling as if their toes had fallen off by the end of a night out, right? Wrong. They've got a ...

There are plenty of reasons why women wear high heels today — to dress up an outfit or lengthen one's silhouette, for example — but centuries ago, the shoes served a much different purpose. High heels ...