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    Men in Heels: A History in Photographs

    Though painful high heels seem like a women's burden, along with menstruation and childbirth, men actually invented these torture devices. With research from The Bata Shoe Museum in Toronto, here's a history of men in heels, from King Louis XIV to Tom Cruise.

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      Male fashionistas (fashionistos?) have been spotted wearing sky-high heels at fashion events, to which we say, okay great. As long as I don't have to wear them.

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