Why did men stop wearing high heels?

[littlemissmartypants]

Beautiful, provocative, sexy - high heels may be all these things and more, but even their most ardent fans wouldn't claim they were practical.

They're no good for hiking or driving. They get stuck in things. Women in heels are advised to stay off the grass - and also ice, cobbled streets and posh floors.

And high heels don't tend to be very comfortable. It is almost as though they just weren't designed for walking in.

Originally, they weren't.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-21151350

[Bucky]

1. you answered your own question in the excerpt box

The real question is, why didn't the ladies quit wearing them?

[littlemissmartypants]

2. Not "my" question but the title of the article verbatim

and this lady has. Did you read the article? I hope so because it is right up your alley. Peace. lmsp

[tblue37]

8. I did stop--after crippling bouts of plantar fasciitis

and an extreme bunion caused me to undergo two foot surgeries. I suppose being 62 makes it less of a sacrifice to give up on wearing cute and sexy shoes, but I gave them up 12 years ago, and it was harder to do so then.

Such shoes are much cuter now, too, than when I wore them. They have so many more clever designs. But I stick with my comfy SAS walking shoes (I call them granny oxfords).

I also stopped wearing dresses and skirts, because they look awful with the shoes I am able to wear. My feet are so damaged that I can't even wear most flats or running or walking shoes. I find a running or walking type sport shoe--usuallu Asik--for daily wear, and granny oxfords for dress-up.

Sigh.

[LWolf]

10. I did. In my later 20s,

when I left behind whatever interest in being fashionable I'd ever entertained, in favor of comfort, health, and practicality.

[barbtries]

3. my theory of high heels has always been

that they're a plot against women.

[RILib]

4. leggings

So I read that leggings are now back in style for both genders. There's a reason they went out of style - bad looking legs and nowadays there's no top they look good with.

[Buzz Clik]

5. Because they are murder on legs and joints? Because men's narcissism takes them in a different way?

[littlemissmartypants]

6. Hat tip to dipsydoodle...

http://www.democraticunderground.com/101653955

[Honeycombe8]

7. I doubt ordinary men have ever worn heels.

As a practical matter, working men would not have been able to. Maybe aristocrats did, since they didn't have to walk much or perform labor.

[tavernier]

9. They emphasize the calves and lift the buttocks.

That is their main role, other than making some very short people feel taller (I think that was the only reason some men wore them).

Basically it's all about vanity and sex appeal.

P.S. - on edit... I'm not saying that is a bad thing. I'm all about vanity myself.

[jambo101]

11. The guy probably had an epiphony while looking in a mirror

Dude what the F are you thinking..

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[aikoaiko]

12. It was the low spark that really did them in

Or so I hear from Steve Winwood.

[hootinholler]

13. HAH! Good one! n/t

[Go Vols]

17. +1

[hootinholler]

14. two words: Cowboy Boots

They still have heels.

[RILib]

18. cowboy boots - horses

As noted in the article.

[Remmah2]

15. Because heels make our butts look fat.

[JVS]

16. The toilet was invented and there wasn't shit all over the sidewalk anymore.

So no need to raise your ankles up.

[snooper2]

19. ROFL

thank you

[Evasporque]

20. men only wear them during sex...

for the most part now....a few exceptions remain...

[Liberal_in_LA]

21. men wore heels in the 70s

http://blog.fidmmuseum.org/museum/2011/10/plaid-platform-shoes-c-1972.html