Carol Hunt: I'm a feminist - but I love my heels

In this macho world, it's not surprising that many women want to stand taller, writes Carol Hunt

High Heels

Carol Hunt

'They're just shoes," says Glinda to her friend Elphaba in the hit musical Wicked.

"Let it go," she pleads as the Wicked Witch of the West (the aforementioned Elphaba) plots to take the coveted slippers from a thieving young Dorothy. Glinda's comments are invariably met with an intake of breath followed by much laughter, because, as any woman will tell you, they're never "just shoes".