What is your opinion on Lily feet?
Pikku13
2012/06/11 09:30:05
Lily feet is a traditional term for bound feet, which unfortunately left many women before the 20th century with disfigured and disformed feet.
Foot binding was a practice in which a womans foot would be bound by cloth until their foot was an estimated of three inches long. This became a very popular fashion sceme that would determine a woman's worth, and who she was to marry. When this had hit its largest, mothers demanded to have their daughters, who usually started at agest six to eight, to bind their feet.
The process was long and hard, and most women who have shared their story of bound feet would claim that it took years to become comfortable. By this time, however, their feet would be too disfigured to ever return to normal. Many women claim that by the time they had bound their feet to comfort, it had fleeted the fashion and became illegal. The Republic had banned foot binding by 1914, since most of the world had became more interested in Asia. Most countries, including America, were baffled by the practice.
Many women who had already bound their feet, found it hard to move to one destination to another without binding their feet.
This leads me to my question, what is your opinion on Lily feet?
Foot binding was a practice in which a womans foot would be bound by cloth until their foot was an estimated of three inches long. This became a very popular fashion sceme that would determine a woman's worth, and who she was to marry. When this had hit its largest, mothers demanded to have their daughters, who usually started at agest six to eight, to bind their feet.
The process was long and hard, and most women who have shared their story of bound feet would claim that it took years to become comfortable. By this time, however, their feet would be too disfigured to ever return to normal. Many women claim that by the time they had bound their feet to comfort, it had fleeted the fashion and became illegal. The Republic had banned foot binding by 1914, since most of the world had became more interested in Asia. Most countries, including America, were baffled by the practice.
Many women who had already bound their feet, found it hard to move to one destination to another without binding their feet.
This leads me to my question, what is your opinion on Lily feet?
Even modern misogynists would balk at such things.
People have suffered everywhere in the world. In fact, I'd say that compared to the brutality of those Western countries you talk of, including the various religious conflicts that lead to horrific instances of death and torture, China was not so bad.
For thousands of years women in Europe (and later America) would wear corsets, which were said to create the perfect figure. Alot of the time, it created the illusion of a hourglass figure, and left many of the women who did not naturally have this figure to harm their intestines. Sometimes, if you were lucky enough, there was a chance that you would be able to loosen your corset to a comforting setting, however if you were of high stature you would do no such thing, and if you were that of the lower ranks, you would follow suite, naturally.
Society may have found a time when women were not strained to have anything but natural beauty, but if it was so, then there was always a greater threat that pursued the life of the woman.
Everyone has their own idea of attractive, and the leader of their country will support ...
For thousands of years women in Europe (and later America) would wear corsets, which were said to create the perfect figure. Alot of the time, it created the illusion of a hourglass figure, and left many of the women who did not naturally have this figure to harm their intestines. Sometimes, if you were lucky enough, there was a chance that you would be able to loosen your corset to a comforting setting, however if you were of high stature you would do no such thing, and if you were that of the lower ranks, you would follow suite, naturally.
Society may have found a time when women were not strained to have anything but natural beauty, but if it was so, then there was always a greater threat that pursued the life of the woman.
Everyone has their own idea of attractive, and the leader of their country will support their idea of attractive, which usually causes their country to think the same. Sometimes, not.
It can always vary, and the opinion of one does not need to be attacked due to differing opinions or little known knowledge. Due try to inform and endulge yourselves peacefully on the matter of history and beauty. Both are part of survival in the modern day, and if we know both, perhaps we can prevent previous harmfull beauty tips from reviving themselves and taking over once more.
Throw in female genital mutilation as a thing and really we should be looking somewhere completely different.
Cannot imagine wanting to do it in this age