The main questions we often ask ourselves – why we love shoes that hurt us? Are high heels all about sexual advantage, since they elongate and exaggerate the female form? Or is there another explanation? What liberates women and what shackles them, when it comes to shoes? Let’s listen to Nancy Rexford the author of “Women’s Shoes in America: 1795 to 1930.” Women’s willingness to tolerate discomfort, even pain, in the service of fashion is often chalked up to the desire to attract a mate or to rise a step in the social hierarchy. But today’s extreme fashions may have more…
