Chinese Foot Binding

In the 10th century foot binding began and was not stopped until the 20th century. It was a tradition that all young girls would have their feet bound around the age of four or five.
Foot binding is were a girls foot would be tightly bound with bandages so that her toes would be tucked under her feet and her feet would stop growing. The reason for this was so that women could feet into elegant little shoes and this was believed to be attractive.