We posted a while back about Grandma’s little shoes and here are some additional pictures and information about the old Chinese fashion trend that had woman torture themselves to fit into tiny little shoes.

Foot binding was practiced in China for 1000 years. Young girls would have their feet wrapped, thus limiting the normal development and essentially crippling them.

Today, it is a prominent cause of disability among elderly Chinese women.

In Chinese foot binding, young girls’ feet, usually at age 6 but often earlier, were wrapped in tight bandages so that they could not grow and develop normally; they would, instead, break and become highly deformed, not growing past 4-6 inches. As the girl reached adulthood, her feet would remain small and dysfunctional, prone to infection, paralysis, and muscular atrophy.