A closer look
Wearing high heels radically alters your natural biomechanics, shifting your center of gravity forward and increasing the pressure on your knee joints by roughly twenty-six percent; this unnatural posture forces your calf muscles to constantly contract and eventually shorten, while simultaneously throwing your lumbar spine into hyper-extension to keep you from falling flat on your face, and prolonged use directly contributes to the degradation of cartilage, greatly accelerating the onset of osteoarthritis and guaranteeing a future filled with specialized orthopedic footwear, meaning you are essentially paying exorbitant amounts of money for designer torture devices that permanently disfigure your skeletal alignment, all in the name of making your legs look slightly more elongated at social events you did not even want to attend in the first place
