Why high heels make women look good

It’s easy to see that high heels make women look good and feel good too. But there are many different reasons why heels are attractive.

The reasons why high heels are sexy range from the simple to the scientific, the easy to the extraordinary. Let’s start with the easy ones first.

1. High heels highlight and make the most of your features

The number 1 reason why heels are so sexy is because they highlight and exaggerate the wearer’s best features – and those most attractive to the opposite sex.

When you are wearing heels, you’re leaning back slightly which means the high heels push your chest out and tuck and tighten your backside.

Wearing high heels also naturally promotes your hips and tighten your calves, just by standing up in them.

This means that just by putting on a pair of heels a woman’s legs are suddenly lengthened and her figure appears more lean!

Heels make the best of what you already have, which is the number 1 reason to love them.

2. High heels make you taller which boosts confidence

It’s very obvious to say that high heels make you taller, but it is not just a physical boost that comes with heels.

After all, heels are a woman’s not-so-secret weapon when it comes to “walking tall” in her mind. High heels say “I’ve got this!” – and I’ve got a great wardrobe too.

In popular culture high heels symbolise power, boost confidence and enhance presence.

That’s not to say they’re necessary for any of these things, just that many women – certainly not all – feel more confident in heels.

3. Heels are works of art

Another reason why high heels are attractive is that heels can be works of art in themselves.

Shiny leather, smooth curves and crisp “spike” heels are a beautiful object before you even put them on.

People like looking at and owning nice things, so if your heels are an artisan creation chances are that you and others will be attracted to them. In short, if you’re wearing something that looks good you will look good too. 

4. High heels are sexy because they exaggerate femininity of gait

Heels are attractive because they make you, and those around you, look good and feel great. But there’s also some science behind why high heels are sexy.

More than a decade of research has confirmed why stilettos cause heads to turn. The short answer is biology.

An even blunter answer is to say that it is sex appeal that drives attraction to high heels.

In 2012, the scientific journal Evolution & Human Behaviour published the results of experiments which examined the basis of the strong contemporary association between high heels and female sexuality.

The investigators (Paul H Morris and others) examined the hypothesis that one motivation for women wearing high heels is that it artificially increases the femininity of their gait.

They experimented by placing small lights on women’s bodies and then filming the movements that the lights made in the dark.

The investigators then showed these point light videos of the women walking in both flat shoes and high heels to participants and asked the participants to judge attractiveness.

The results were clear. The participants judged the women wearing heels as “significantly more attractive” than those walking in flats.

Biomechanical analyses which were conducted revealed that wearing high heels led to an increased femininity of gait. This meant that heels caused a reduced stride length and increased rotation and tilt of the hips.

The investigators concluded that high heels exaggerate sex specific aspects of female gait and that women walking in high heels could be regarded as a “supernormal stimulus.”

This confirms what shoe designers, fashionistas and just about everyone else has been saying for years: stilettos are sexy shoes!