MALTREATMENT OF FEET

New Zealand Herald, Volume LX, Issue 18533, 18 October 1923, Page 9

MALTREATMENT OF FEET

THE HIGH-HEELED SHOE. CAUSE OF MANY ILLS.. • '':'■ , LONDON. Oct. 8. Ninety-nine pairs of women's feet out of hundred are ; deformed, horribly, deformed by the wearing of '■ high-heeled shoes, says Sir Herbert Barker, the famous manipulative', surgeon, who, avers ■■ that! he has seen in the course of his work as a. bonesetter more women's feet: than any other • person in the • world. ja. ■:. , '-. ■ He has taken part in a controversy at present raging in England over the wearing .of high or low lieelsj and, while dancing expert's favour the present high heels, Sir Herbert' roundly ' condemns them. . '■'<■■■;■ ■ : "': ' ; -' High heels,- he says, cause enlargement of the joints and distortion of the toes, which are jammed together in the shoe, thus causing pain and tiredness in the feeC. ■■' -■■ ■ ■ ■/■•' ' ".What else can you expect?" he asks, and adds that when patients ha has cured return to him and in the meantime have again become the slaves o* fashion, ;he refuses to see them. , _ ; " High heels cause most of the inter- j nal ills of women, and displace her vital,; organs by the unnatural curve they give to her ; back," he declares. .■' ■;.