High heels suggest a woman's feet are delicate, submissive, and destabilized.
High heels stand wearers precariously up on their tiptoes, thus shifting the body's center of gravity forward and causing a compensatory forward lean.
The ass, already prominent by primate standards, protrudes an additional 25%.
Heels make feminine legs seem longer in proportion to body size and, through the zoological principle of mimicry, more like the slim legs of teenage girls. (Anthropologists have determined that female bodies attain their peak of allure in the late-teen years.)
Heels beget shapely legs as both heads of the calf (or gastrocnemius) muscle contract to slim and firm the back of the lower leg, and the ankle rides prominently high in the shoe itself.
So powerful are their messaging features that, despite health warnings and the specter of bunions, high heels are not likely to appear on the endangered-shoes list. In 2005, according to an APMA estimate, 72 percent of American women wear high heels--39 percent on a daily basis.)
-all above paraphrased from the work of Dr. David Givens at the Center for Nonverbal Studies in Spokane, Washington
