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>>3641003
Yeah it was a real practice. They're called lotus feet were indicative of status and wealth in ancient China, as a woman with bound feet is pretty much unable to walk around and work the fields. Walking with shoes is exceptionally difficult, and without shoes most are forced to crawl to get around. The process begins very young, and starts with the manual breaking of the feet, and then pressing the broken bones/tissue inwards, and binding it with cloth. As you can imagine it was excruciating.

The practice began to die out around the mid-1900's, but there still exists a few women sporting lotus feet today, remnants of a different age. Picture related.