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The dainty walk of Chinese women beyond the Wall in olden days was due to cruel and unusual punishment confined and constrained by strange customary ways victims of fashion prisoners of fad small feet were in sadly big were bad forced to wear a pair of lotus shoes very small baby steps were all they took altho' it wasn't until 1912 or so when the girls were finally let off the hook back then 'pon seeing his new-born daughter especially when she cried a Chinaman was bound to say 'Those toes are fit to be tied.'

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