I get a steady flow of forwards from my mom on a daily basis that I usually just trash, but today she sent over a rather interesting forward with a bunch of photos of painful shoes and some bonus photos of a Chinese woman who had her feet bound her entire life.

There were too many photos to include here so I uploaded them to Photobucket and attached a couple. I should warn the faint of heart that the pictures of the Chinese woman are not pretty. I had no idea that binding feet caused that kind of deformity. I just thought they looked small like children's feet. Not so.

I thought wearing 4 inch heels was painful...some of these shoes really take the cake!

The things women do in the name of fashion!

I've heard most women with bound feet can't even walk after a number of years... yuck.