While holding a 3-foot-long cane behind my back, I walked the plank — wobbling along a narrow wooden platform in a pair of hot pink, 4-inch pumps that I’d dug out from the back of my closet hours ...

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 ...