How women's legs suffer from fashion stereotypes

2024 Author: Seth Attwood | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-16 15:55

After the face, women's legs occupy an honorable second place among body parts that undergo various transformations for the sake of fashion. This material has collected 5 traditions that cause significant damage to the body.

1. Thick thighs as the standard of beauty in the Middle East

In the countries of the East (Arab, Middle Eastern, even many African), full hips are considered the standard of female beauty. Remember what the thighs of oriental beauties look like when they perform belly dancing.

Alternatively, remember Kim Kardashian's thighs! That is why it is much easier for Slavic women to choose their own jeans size, made in Turkey, and not in China. The East will always leave room for women's hips! But do not forget that such completeness promises many diseases, first of all, it hits the vessels.

2. Ilizarov apparatus for lengthening the legs of podium models at the end of the 20th century

The Ilizarov transosseous compression-distraction apparatus performs osteosynthesis (connection and fusion of the fracture) due to the formation of interstitial callus.

In addition to compression, that is, tight compression of bone fragments, it is possible to perform a complete closed reduction of the fragments. The device is at the same time distraction, as it allows for distraction (stretching), which is necessary in operations to lengthen the limbs.

Now imagine that at the end of the 20th century, runway models deliberately broke their legs in order to lengthen them using the Ilizarov apparatus.

It sounds creepy, but it's a fact. Recovery takes a very long time and is fraught with many difficulties. At first, you will have to lie down almost all the time, and then literally learn to walk again during the year. First on crutches, and later without them. In the 21st century, the length of the models' legs on the catwalks is no longer so important, the institution of universal fashion models is now in a greater honor.

3. High heels that lead to serious illness

Long-term wearing of such high-heeled shoes in the future may result in constant pain or even the need for surgical treatment. Over time, bursitis of the big toe and other bones of the foot may develop.

Bursitis of the thumb (popularly - a bone) is a bony growth that appears around the base of the thumb and provokes its bending towards the other fingers, which can cause painful sensations, gait disturbances, then - diseases of the spine, as well as the inability to choose comfortable shoes in everything the variety of shops in your city for the rest of your life.

Other complications due to long-term wearing of high heels: lump (a bony growth on the heel that results from constant friction and pressure from the hard heel and straps of high-heeled shoes, treated with surgery), metatarsalgia (painful inflammation of the metatarsal head of the foot as a result of constant pressure on the metatarsal bones, treated surgically), ankle injuries, hip fracture (leading to death in old age).

The list goes on.

4. Bandaging feet in China to create a lotus foot

The victims of this brutal tradition live in China to this day. If the length of the foot did not exceed 7 centimeters, it was called a golden lotus, up to 10 centimeters - a silver lotus, over 10 centimeters - an iron one.

Only such a foot was considered worthy for a girl to marry successfully. It took about three years for this, during which the girl's legs, bent in the right way, with broken toes were constantly in a kind of "plaster cast" made of cotton bandages and tiny pointed shoes.

Gradually, the bandaging was done tighter and tighter, the bones broke many times. At the last stage, a high rise was formed so that a chicken egg could fit from below, between the heel and the forefoot.

The women continued to bandage their legs all their lives, constantly overcoming severe pain. Women with normal legs were despised, and men considered a tiny crippled leg to be very erotic. True, Chinese men never wanted to look at the disfigured feet in the nude - even the wife went to bed in socks.

5. Walking kawaii in Japan

In Japan, it is considered a beautiful gait and good manners to keep the socks of the feet inward, it is absolutely permissible to shuffle the sole when walking. Walking toes inward and hobble a little is considered very kawaii in Japan (cute), and walking toes forward or to the sides is considered rough.

Even confident Japanese men who want to be culturally trendy walk with their socks inward. In other words, in Japan, even in the 21st century, INTENTIONAL BEAUTY is cultivated. But what complications develop with clubfoot: muscle atrophy, dysfunction of the knee joints, subluxation of the bones of the feet, curvature of the spine.

A neglected form can cause disability.