HIGH HEELS.
WOMEN’S AWFUL FEET. I.nvnOY October o Nij-c-tl nine pairs of women’s feet out of a hured are deformed, horrihly deformed by the wearing of highheeled shoes, says Kir Herbert Rarkr. t-hv famous manipulative surgeon, who avers that he las seo n in the course r.f hif. work ?»s a honesetber more women’s fr*d tin n nnv other person in tlm v.orbl. He has take,, part in a controversy at present raging in Kvgbar.d over the vearirg of high or lon heels, and. while d-ering evm>rt.s favour the present high he* Sir Herher; roundly condemns them High heels, he says, cause enlarge merit of the joints'and distortion of the toes, winch are jammed together in the shoe, thus causing pam and tiredness in the feet. “What eW can you expect?” be asks, and adds that when patients he has cured return to him ami in the meantime hare again become the slaves of fashion, he refuses to see them. ” High heels cause most of the internal ills of women, and displace her vital organs by the unnatural curve they give to her back.” he declares.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 17177, 22 October 1923, Page 1
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186HIGH HEELS. Star (Christchurch), Issue 17177, 22 October 1923, Page 1
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