Women and high heels — it's a pairing as old as time. These shoes may hurt the sh*t out of our feet, but that doesn't stop us from wearing them on any given night. Just take a look around the bar over ...

Avery has fallen head over heels for shoes. And not just any shoes. Stilettos are what make her go weak at the knees. Liz Avery's collection of 'about 30' pairs of shoes puts her in the top bracket of ...

A reader wonders why the uncomfortable and often impractical shoes have not been retired. By Vanessa Friedman It is true, the death knell of the stiletto — that high heel invented in the 1950s that is ...

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Elizabeth Semmelhack is the senior curator of the Bata Shoe Museum. She is the author of "Heights of Fashion: A History of the Elevated Shoe." Updated November 1, 2013, 12:39 PM The stiletto is one of ...

The high-heeled shoe, popular among men in pre-revolutionary France, is losing favour among women on the streets of Paris. The once familiar click of stiletto on cobble is giving way to the silence of ...

Jennifer Lopez kept it comfy and casual during an outing in L.A. with fiancé (!) Ben Affleck on Wednesday, April 13. Her black overalls, which she paired with a white cotton tee, are a bit of a ...