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WOMEN
WOMEN
WHAT YOUR HEELS SAY OF YOUR AMBITION
A priori, it looks like the height of heels is chosen according to our desires, to our tastes or still to our capacity to carry them.
In reality, according to an American study relieved by Yahoo Style, the fact of perching on 3 or 12cm would also depend on our place of residence, and more exactly on the standard of living of the latter.
For example, when an American moves in a more smart district that his, in particular in a big city as Los Angeles or New York, height of its heels conforms suddenly with that of her new neighbours.
That it is a question of kitten heels or vertiginous stiletto heels, the newcomer will tend copy/to stick the style of her congeners in the upper lifestyle, than she moreover has the means there or not.
" Most of people want to improve their standard of living and adopt of the blow the behavior of those who already have a status raised in the company " it explains, qualifying this phenomenon of " conformist effect ".
Nevertheless, the inverse mechanism is much less marked. The researchers were able to notice that if one of the women of the study was brought to move in a less favored district that his, her clearly less tended to imitate the style of her congeners by keeping the same height of heels.
A way for her, according to the researchers, to preserve the status acquired in their previous environment, at least symbolically.
Show me your heels, I shall tell you what are your aspiration.