[quote author=jerkin4-10 link=board=health;num=1069684910;start=0#12 date=01/09/04 at 07:42:58]a little off topic, but jonb...wasnt the fact that they had unaltered feet....but merely the SIZE of the shoe that the women could wear...mainly women of status...they would put small girls feet in solid strong shoes and never take them off...the bones and stuff would bend and be malformed and stuff...of course they couldnt walk and had to be carried everywhere...but they had these little dainty shoes hiding these groteskly malformed feet...[/quote]
The deformed feet were a sign of status, IIRC.