DIG YOUR HEELS IN
The Japanese word for “shoe” is kutsu. The word for “pain” is kutsuu. And the hashtag for “Can’t I wear something with arch support?” is #KuToo.
The campaign to ban the requirement for women to wear heels at work was started earlier this year by 32-year-old actor Yumi Ishikawa. She had complained online about being made to wear 5-7cm high heels for her part-time job at a funeral parlour, often ending her shift with bleeding little toes.
Yumi’s subsequent petition – very politely headed “Please give women a choice to wear flat leather shoes” – has had 30,000 signatures, and
