[ExI] how did high heels happen?

[Ben Zaiboc]

"spike" <spike66 at att.net> mused:

> My previous theory on high heel shoes has been destroyed.  I had assumed
> that women thought that men found high heel shoes sexy (we don't) and so
> wearing such a contraption would attract men.

Umm, speak for yourself, Spike, but many men do find high heels sexy.

I believe it's because they change the curvature of the spine, making the buttocks more prominent.
So it's not the heels themselves, but what they do that attracts men (maybe engineers fixate on the peculiar footwear and don't notice the rump-enhancing effects).

A bit like corsets, I suppose.  Ghastly and confounding contraptions (even worse than deckchairs), but they change the waist-to-hip ratio, in the sexy direction.

Not that this has any bearing on your actual question.  I think the Barbie doll idea has some merit.

Ben Zaiboc