http://www.greenpacks.org/2008/07/15/hurricane-season-longer-stormier-arriving-earlier/ Wed, 11 Nov 2009 13:39:21 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 hourly 1 http://www.greenpacks.org/2008/07/15/hurricane-season-longer-stormier-arriving-earlier/comment-page-1/#comment-1639 C Spike Wed, 03 Sep 2008 01:08:03 +0000 http://www.greenpacks.org/2008/07/15/hurricane-season-longer-stormier-arriving-earlier/#comment-1639 Re: the cubic watermelon piece and the anti-japanese comments at its end:- Foot-binding was a chinese invention said to beautify the feet and almost mandatory for ladies except the poorest classes i.e. poor peasants often went barefoot. I've always regarded foot-binding as a not so subtle substitute for the ball and chain. IMO japanese ladies did not practise it to any large extent and their usual footware were Geta, a little like flip-flops on stilts. Noisey like clip-clop, clip-clop. Kimonos encourage short steps and make running away a slow process doomed to failure while the clip-clop sound made tracking easier if over hard ground. However, kimonos could be very expensive and really beautifying. Maybe foot-binding originally reflected a male attitude towards women as kitchen and bed slaves. Re: the cubic watermelon piece and the anti-japanese comments at its end:- Foot-binding was a chinese invention said to beautify the feet and almost mandatory for ladies except the poorest classes i.e. poor peasants often went barefoot.
I’ve always regarded foot-binding as a not so subtle substitute for the ball and chain.
IMO japanese ladies did not practise it to any large extent and their usual footware were Geta, a little like flip-flops on stilts. Noisey like clip-clop, clip-clop. Kimonos encourage short steps and make running away a slow process doomed to failure while the clip-clop sound made tracking easier if over hard ground. However, kimonos could be very expensive and really beautifying.
Maybe foot-binding originally reflected a male attitude towards women as kitchen and bed slaves.

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