As you know, many adult women like to wear high-heeled shoes. Even schoolgirls like to do so when they go out--except when going to school. Have you ever thought about why women like to wear high-heeled shoes? According to women, high-heeled shoes have several advantages. But have you ever heard that it can be dangerous to wear high-heeled shoes? Today, I would like to talk about both what is good and bad when a woman wears high-heeled shoes.
　　　 In general, women say that their legs seem to be prettier when they are wearing high-heeled shoes. I entirely agree with this idea of women. The sight of a woman from behind wearing high-heeled shoes is really attractive. Actually, according to the shoe industry, the curvilinear shape of high-heeled shoes is suitable for a nice leg line and makes it more beautiful. But women also know the fact that when they wear high-heeled shoes they feel more tired than they do when they wear other kinds of shoes, such as low-heeled shoes. One day, for example, I saw a fashion model on a TV talk show. The fashionmodel said that wearing high-heeled shoes makes her very tired, so fashion models, including her, usually stand barefoot when they stand by in a waiting room.
　　　 Now, let's consider this issue more concretely. I guess you know that almost every Korean office woman wears high-heeled shoes at work. In order to know about the opinions of university students, I sent out a questionnarie about high-heeled shoes to a random sample of 30 female students in our university's Department of English Language and Literature on October 1st. According to the results of the questionnarie, although they were all students, 28 women answered　 that they choose to wear high-heeled shoes that match their attire despite foot pain!　 But none of them knew concretely the effects that high-heeled shoes have on their bodies.
　　　 A few weeks ago, I watched a TV program which showed how it affects a woman's body to wear high-heeled shoes. The staff concerned with the program investigated high-heeled shoes in various ways during the program. According to the medical examinations shown on the program, it clearly has bad effects on a woman's body to wear high-heeled shoes. First, when a woman puts on high-heeled shoes, she loses her balance because the center of the body moves forward. Instinctively, the body hates to lose its balance and tends to try to recover it. So her brain feels　 awkward with the posture and she tips her upper body a little backward to keep her balance. If this phenomenon of the body is continued for over 10 years, the spine can become deformed and some chronic pains are caused in the back and the waist. Second, the weight of the body must rest evenly on the sole of the foot, but when a woman wears high-heeled shoes, the weight is delivered to the fore part of the foot, and consequently her feet become deformed and a confirmed foot pain is also caused. Therefore it is not a simple matter, and it can be very dangerous to wear high-heeled shoes.
　　　 However, high-heeled shoes also have several advantages. First, as mentioned above, high-heeled shoes help women's legs to look more beautiful. Next, as you know, high-heeled shoes are very suitable when women dress up. In addition, high-heeled shoes help increase one's height. For these reasons, most women like to wear high-heeled shoes, and high-heeled shoes are displayed in the most conspicuous places in the shoe shops. Moreover shoe companies concentrate more on marketing high-heeled shoes than marketing any other shoes for women. It seems that many women still value fashion and design above practicality.
　　　 In short, the matter of wearing high-heeled shoes resolves itself into the following two points. One is that there are several advantages of wearing high-heeled shoes for fashion reasons. At the same time, wearing high-heeled shoes has several disadvantages in terms of health and practicality. In the long run, because joints of the backbone become more curved, a woman's height may decrease and some serious pains can be caused in the body, so it is more serious to wear high-heeled shoes for growing young girls, experts of neurological surgery warn. I think the best way for women to be both fashionable and healthy is to wear comfortable shoes for walking that are both practical and fashionable. Although woman can wear high-heeled shoes as occasion demands or if they want to do so, they must keep these facts in mind whenever they put on high-heeled shoes.