Ladies, putting your best foot forward apparently includes sporting a pair of high heels, according to the latest research from France.
The latest French study into the power of high-heeled shoes has found that men behave much more favourably to women sporting a few added inches.
A team of scientists from the Université de Bretagne-Sud placed women in three different scenarios, monitoring if their footwear would influence how men would act around them.
The results, which were later published in the journal ‘Archives of Sexual Behaviour’ found men love to help women who have given their feet a little lift.
The research found men were much more easily stopped in the street by women wearing heels, more likely to help out their female counterparts and a woman waits less time to be approached and chatted up by a man at a bar when wearing high-heeled shoes.
Need some proof?
The research team did the leg work… (See what we did there?)
The team asked the women to drop a glove on the street, and see if a man would help them pick it back up. The study found that women in heels were 50% more likely to have their glove picked up by a man compared to a woman wearing flats.
The women in heels were also twice as likely to persuade men to stop to answer survey questions in the street, and in terms of attraction?
Women waited half the time to be picked up by a man in the bar compared to those who wore a pair of flats.
So what does this all add-up to? Apart from an adjusted height…
Nicolas Gueguen, a behaviour science researcher and the study’s author said:
“Women’s shoe heel size exerts a powerful effect on men’s behaviour. Simply put, for many men they make women more beautiful.”
One Paris-based sociologist Jean-Claude Kaufmann said of the results:
“In a seduction setting, men are very attracted by a woman in heels as she looks taller, more sexually confident, sure of herself, and has a lengthened silhouette and sensual jutting buttocks.”
So better slip on the heels for an extra helping hand… but maybe just keep the flats in the bag.
Hey, we’re still creatures of comfort at the end of the day.
