Young Brunette Girl With Red Heels Strips Her Pink Lingerie In The Studio

Throughout the last 60 years, high heels have fallen in and out of favor several times, most notably in the late 1990s, when lower heels and even flats predominated. Lower heels were preferred during the late 1960s and early 1970s as well, but higher heels returned in the late 1980s and early 1990s. The shape of the fashionable heel has also changed from block (1970s) to tapered (1990s), and stiletto (1950s, 1980s, and post-2000).
Today, high heels are typically worn by women, with heights varying from a kitten heel of 1½ inches (4 cm) to a stiletto heel (or spike heel) of 4 inches (10 cm) or more. Extremely high-heeled shoes, such as those higher than 5 inches (13 cm), are normally worn only for aesthetic reasons and are not considered practical. Court shoes are conservative styles and often used for work and formal occasions, while more adventurous styles are common for evening wear and dancing. High heels have seen significant controversy in the medical field lately, with many podiatrists seeing patients whose severe foot problems have been caused almost exclusively by high-heel wear.
Wedge heel is informally another style of the heel, where the heel is in a wedge form and continues all the way to the toe of the shoe.
Reasons against wearing high heels, which are almost exclusively health and practicality reasons, include: