High-heeled Boots.

Oamaru Mail, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 10604, 5 November 1910, Page 4 (Supplement)

High-heeled Boots.

Dr von Koranyi, of Buda-Pesth, has made a series of observations on the influence of ' dress in cases of floating and movable kidneys, and has aLso studied a large series of statistics prepared from the experience of others. He endeavors to show from these researches that highheeled boots play a distinct part m causing displacement of the kidney, especially in conjunction with the heavy drag of clothes fastened above to the contracted waist; and fashion at present demands that these two pernicious erors in dress should be enforced on her votaries. The elevation of the heels causes an increase in the lumbar (or loins) curve, and Dr von Koranyi shows that this may entail displacement of the kidney, even if that organ lie originally well back.