Originally Posted by
DogHouseMom
Sadly this is not new ... The Chinese women used to bind their feet to keep them small because tiny feet were considered more attractive. The feet were bound as young children and continued until as adults the feet were so grossly bent and folded that they barely resembled feet ... they looked more like triangular hooves.
Horrendously, there was more to it than just 'binding' the feet. Girls' feet were deliberately broken by various methods (sometimes more than once) so they could be folded and compressed before being tightly wrapped. Some of these tortured little victims died from the pain and trauma. The standard of aristocratic beauty was to have tiny feet like 'lotus buds' and delicate, tottering tiny steps. Big feet (natural feet) were peasant, coarse and low-status. Adult women in the family were responsible for the binding whether by choice or by pressure from males or in-laws. Got to have that female ready for the marriage market. Now teenaged girls get breast implants.