Near the start of the movie “Barbie,” before the titular character’s existential crisis, she kicks off a pair of high-heeled slippers and keeps gliding right along en pointe, her feet still in the same flexed, tippy-toed position as before. The film was making a cultural point (and an excellent visual joke).
But the image also may have had some slight physiological validity, studies suggest. Although past research into the effects of wearing high heels on legs and feet has been limited, it’s generally shown that wearing heels regularly for months or years significantly alters how people walk, with or without heels.
In one of the first such studies, Australian biomechanics researchers found that young women who habitually wore high heels walked with shorter, more-thwacking strides than women who usually wore flats, their feet and ankles constantly in a more flexed position, even when everyone was barefoot.
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