Heel of shoe

Sedentary lifestyles enabled an increasing fashion for high heels on shoes in the late oil age. Initially worn mostly by women and girls, all society eventually adopted this fashion, with impractically high heels becoming a significant status symbol. Pencil-thin heels of over 20cm were not unusual amongst the affluent in the late 21c. Due to their fragility, few of these more extreme examples survive. The heels (and the wearers’ limbs) frequently broke in use.