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#26 A high caste lady’s dainty ‘lily feet’, showing method of deformity’, China, 1900.

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A high caste lady’s dainty ‘lily feet’, showing method of deformity’, China, 1900.

Bound Feet: Horrible Body Modification that Chinese Women Practiced for One Thousand years

#26 A high caste lady’s dainty ‘lily feet’, showing method of deformity’, China, 1900.

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←#25 A 1930s Chinese shoe, made for women with bound feet.
#27 A close-up of the feet of an aristocratic Chinese woman, deformed by binding.→

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