Trends I guess? Look at the BBLs, fillers and botox people think are beautiful now.

You're not supposed to ever see the feet themselves, ,just that dainty slippers they wore. The smaller the feet, the more 'delicate' the owner, where delicate means they're considered feminine and upper class enough to have never had to work.

The "beauty" of absolute contoll and enslavement

A woman with bound feet would NEVER let you see hr with her socks off, the binding is meant to create an illusion of an intact but very impossibly small normal shaped foot. folding the foot and wrapping the toes around, leaving the heel and big toe side by side, then covering it with tiny satin slippers makes it appear the foot is tiny like a deer. The multination is hidden.

I agree, but I think it was how they looked in the tiny slippers that was considered beautiful, and not the poor feet inside them.

well, it is a status symbol...i am so rich that my wife does not have to work/use her feet...and, there have been many, many ridiculous fashions throughout the centuries -- for men and women -- that were intended simply to convey wealth...money is beautiful to many

Foot fetishism.... guess what you can do with a foot shaped like that? Yes, there is historical evidence that the fetish was common among the culture. There was the added fact that others have mentioned re it showed a man's and a family's wealth, that they could afford for her to not work. But fetishism was a big part of it.

Oddly enough, the pointy bit of these feet might be just the ticket for the pointy tips of modern fashionable stilletoes.

Not just beautiful, but highly erotic. There are old Chinese paintings of naked people engaging in every conceivable sexual position, but the women always have their shoes on. The image of a bare bound foot was considered too risque even for art. When this photo was taken, it would have been considered pornographic. It's still shocking today, but for entirely different reasons.

The idea was so that you could cram your feet into tiny tiny shoes; the so-called "lotus foot" was considered attractive. Bearing in mind folks are seeing the tiny shoes... Not the state of the feet that wear them...

I think it was so they could wear shoes that were considered beautiful.

Nothing to do with beauty. The idea was stopping women getting out of the house or even the bedroom

THE DEMENTED IDEA THAT SMALLER IS BETTER. IT'S JUST ONE OF THEIR MANY DISGUSTING PRACTICES!

no man could see a woman's foot without a covering (sock, shoe). The covered foot had the shape of a tulip flower. Tradition is a terrible force!

Probably men at this time did not want the women to be able to walk away.

A weird Asian fetish thougnt that tiny feet on women was beautiful so unless you werre fortunate enough to be born that way, this disgusting practise was common among the rich. The poor kept their natural feet and carried on as normal.

It's not anymore disgusting than women doing bbl surgery to look like monsters.

Wasn't about beauty. Was about the man showing off how rich he was that his wife/daughter didn't have to work or even do dishes. Corsets in 19th century. Blue hair today (at least that grow out painlessly). Women are part of the problem when they pressure their daughters to go along with current fashion.

Because how else would men complain about how their wives do nothing while they're at work?

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It's no different where women in western society use stiletto heals in order to look pleasing to a man.

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Ghastly.

If you have a strong stomach

Yes, and is much better than The Binding Chair for describing the binding process and its lifelong effect on its victims. Author Lisa See further advocates the legacy of these women, and the quiet culture that included Nu Shu, the secret writing that allowed Chinese women to communicate and be supportive of one another. There are museums dedicated to preserving the legacy of both practices.

Agreed, that was a very good book.

Try Castratos…