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Letter: Well-heeled

Published 16 December 2014

From Ron Davis

Corrinne Burns’s article on how altering the sound of your footfall can change how you feel reminds me that in Canada during the 1950s there was a fad for metal strips on the bottoms of shoes (22 November, p 40). These made loud clicks as you walked.

Their wearers affected conspicuous clothing and an insouciant gait. I thought all these features were components of a specific style, but Burns’s article indicates that the clickers were perhaps driving the other features of the style.

The fad quickly faded when people realised the damage metal clickers did to hardwood floors.
Deep River, Ontario, Canada

Issue no. 3000 published 20 December 2014

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