(Most running shoes ... heel-to drop if not a zero mm drop. Support, stability and motion control will have the larger drop (12 mm). Charles Thorp is the Fitness and Commerce Editor at Men’s ...

As men turned to practical, less frivolous garments, their shoe heels also remained sensible — though not for women, whose heel heights were imbued with complex social and political implications ...

And while men are perceived to be well turned out at any event in flat shoes, the high heel trend, believe it or not, began with them. "The origins of the heel relates to horse riding and warriors ...