High Heels For Men Show Just How Much Gender Expression Has Changed

"Never before have a few inches mattered so much." The tagline for an upcoming exhibit at the Bata Shoe Museum in Toronto says everything about guys in heels. Today, of course, high-heeled shoes are synonymous with femininity. Men who want to add a bit of height have to do so with inserts on the DL, and any non-cowboys wandering around with heels visibly higher than normal might get a few judgy looks. But for about 130 years in the 17th and 18th centuries, Western men wore heeled shoes as an exp...