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!

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