HIGH HEELED SHOES

Timaru Herald, Volume CXXXIX, Issue 20107, 14 May 1935, Page 12

HIGH HEELED SHOES

The wearing of high-heeled shoes by women was criticised by Professor John Fraser. Edinburgh, when he lectured to members attending the autumn convention of the Incorporated Society of Chiropodists, held in Edinburgh. “There is not the slightest doubt,” said Professor Fraser, “that the tendency of the present day to use high heels is a very great mistake.” From the point of view of comparative anatomy, the matter went back to an experiment rejected for obvious reasons millions and millions of years ago, and here we were putting back the hands of the clock and trying to repeat something which a very wise race of creatures had realised was harmful. He often wondered whether the lady of to-day who used the high heel and threw her weight forward on the front of the foot realised that in so doing she was mimicking a monkey of very ancient date, the semnopithetic ape, and he also wondered whether she realised that its successors had tr to overcome difficulties experienced by that animal by putting their feet down. If we could only begin to adopt footwear which had scarcely a heel at all, a large measure of our foot disabilities would disappear.