By the 2020s, only 40 percent of Barbie dolls were designed with permanently arched feet for wearing high heels ...

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Soon, we had designed a research project to study the feet of Barbie dolls on the market from her launch in 1959 to June 2024 ...

“Barbie models her footwear choice based on task demands, being flat-footed and wearing flat shoes when she needs to work on her feet, be physically active or more stable,” they added. “Given Barbie ...

What do you get when a group of podiatrists team up with a Barbie doll collector? A research paper published in the journal ...

What do you get when a group of podiatrists (and shoe lovers) team up with a Barbie doll collector? A huge opportunity to explore how Barbie reflects changes in the types of shoes women wear.

Podiatrist Cylie Williams has been rushed off her feet explaining how high heels aren't as bad as we think they are, and we ...

“We were talking about how nice it was to finally see Barbie in flat shoes and to see Barbie making all of these different shoe choices based on what she had to do in her day,” Cylie ...

Barbie's equinus posture was closely linked to task demands, with flat feet more common in dolls designed to "work on their feet," according to the authors. In real life, the footwear market is ...

Barbie once could only stand on her tip toes, in tiny high heels. Her job? To look pretty. A new study finds there's a correlation between flatter-footed Barbies and more job choices.

The researchers came up with a metric to track Barbie foot changes over time — foot posture, equity, employment and time or F.E.E.T. The strongest link between a Barbie’s foot posture came with the ...