Antigue pussy foot shoes

Description:However they were still prone to repeatedly re-breaking, especially during teenage years when the girl's feet were soft. Infection was the another common problem with toenails in-growing and becoming infected. Millions of Chinese women bound their feet to turn them into 'three-inch golden lotuses' or 'San Cun Jin Lian' Children's bone is easier to break and mould which is why their feet were often bound from as young as two. In , after the fall of the Qing Dynasty, the new Nationalist government banned foot binding, but it was not until the Communists took power in that a strict prohibition was enforced. In , 60 Christian women in Xiamen called for an end of the practice and were supported by the Woman's Christian Temperance Movement in In 10th and 11th century China, girls from the upper classes would complete the practice, but it soon became a technique used by all young women in society. Every day the foot would be unwrapped and wrapped again with the girls being put into smaller and smaller shoes until their foot was about 4 inches long.

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