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The assessment of heels on women’s footwear

How heels for women’s shoes and boots are evaluated.

This article mainly considers heels formed from rigid plastics such as high-impact polystyrene (HIPS) and acrylonitrile butadiene styrene (ABS), that are used in women’s footwear. Such heels may be slender and contain steel reinforcement, or they may be chunky with a hollow base and no reinforcement.

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