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The Impact of Wearing High Heels on Women's Health and Attractiveness: A Field Study

Journal of Basic and Applied Scientific Research www.textroad.com • 2015
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Authors *M. A. Maarouf-PhD * Associate Professor of Garment Design and Manufacturing – home economics ,Faculty of Education, Suez Canal University, Egypt.
Keywords High heels - women's healthy and attractiveness - fashion design - accessories – backbones.
Journal Journal of Basic and Applied Scientific Research www.textroad.com
Publisher J. Basic. Appl. Sci. Res., 5(8)54-61, 2015 © 2015, TextRoad Publication
Volume Res., 5(8)
Issue ISSN 2090-4304
Pages 54-61
publication.type International
Paper Link Open Link
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Abstract
The research explores relationship between women's health ,attractiveness and wearing high heels(one of
women's accessories) and aims to know the Impact of wearing high heels on women's health and attractiveness .
In fact: a lot of women prefer wearing high heels for some reasons although there are some bad results.
One of these reasons:, they believe that high heels increase their tall and attractiveness, additional to some
women thinks that the high heel gives their truest.
The field study used about 200 of business women & employees and university students (girls) and divided them
into two main groups.
 First group: for business women and employees.
 Second group: for university students.
Finally, the researcher used Experimental scientific method and the results of the field study were the following:
68% of the business women prefer wearing high heels because they believe that it suitable for the business and it
gives them more tall , more trust and more attractiveness.
52% of the workers women prefer wearing high heels because they think that it gives them taller and more
attractive.
66% of university girls prefer wearing flat or sports shoes because they believed that it comfortable and practical
while 33% of them prefer wearing high heels shoes because they believe that it makes them attractive, But, 88%
of the all [women , employees ,university students] prefer wearing high heels in the special occasion.
Finally, the researcher recommends worthwhile to study the impact of some elements and design on health and
attractiveness of women.