They say you should never judge a person until you've walked a mile in their shoes.

Here at Stylist magazine, we decided to put that theory to the test following last week's news that a woman was sent home from work without pay for refusing to wear high heels.

By standing up to this draconian rule, Nicola Thorp - the woman in question - shed light on the fact that, in the UK, it is still legal to make women wear heels to work. Thorp's petition condemning the law has now reached 139,285 signatures on Change.org.

When Thorp, 27, asked the company for whom she was working if the men were also required to wear heels, she was laughed at.

To highlight the absurd sexist law, the Stylist video team decided to do exactly that – ask men to wear heels to work for a day.

The resulting video went instantly viral, with 6.7million views at the time of writing, 128,171 Facebook shares and 9,000 comments.

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