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[quote=JABAROOTOO,303821]A few comments to help clarify things.

Flip flops or thongs as I call them are anything resembling the former photo compliments of Shegottobe  'the CROCS '  They were once just something you wore to the beach or around the house.  In Australia they are part on our 'National Dress Code' of shorts, singlet and thongs.

In China, feet are still very important and if you are going to expose them they better look good.  Foot massaging and pedicures are a national pass time and very cheap even for the average city dweller.  So everywhere you look the women are showing off there feet.

The good the bad and the ugly.  So much so that I often feel self conscious about my sometimes tardy looking toes but a trip to the paint shop always leave them looking like a million dollars.

As to bound feet.  This is my humble understanding of this crippling act

The Chinese, men of course, considered feet very sensual, the smaller and more delicate looking the better.   Thus this barbaric act of binding of women's feet began around the age of five, preparing them for marriage.  They were then only seen by the women themselves or the master of the house when he sought some sensual pleasure or arousal from these now  ugly, smelly, peeling stubs.

They were for a man's pleasure only!!!!!!!!!!!!!  Indeed the women found no pleasure it any of this.

Women with big feet were considered ugly, and ineligible for marriage, especially in upper class circles.

In those days women rarely left their homes so walking any great distance was unnecessary and it kept them housebound like other household chattels.  When they travelled any distance it would be by sedan chair, mostly hidden from public sight.

While the practice has been banned for more than fifty years it 'died hard' when early activist began to help liberate those still bound to this custom and there is still a generation of elderly women who still totter courageously on their 'beautiful little lotus leaves'

I personally fail to see any resemblance with lotus leaves. If you've ever seen them, these are in fact huge and round enabling them to float on water.

I guess they don't have toes!!  But they are certainly not small or delicate.  Beautiful yes and practical but not small or delicate!![/quote]

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