The unique tradictional aesthetics inAsian Countries (nudity)

Korea--- sexy costume

in China, small feet were beautiful and foot binding forced feet to be small

in late Choson Korea, mothers, especially of boys, wore clothes like that

 They are sexy  I'd ride the middle one anyday

What fantasy world do you live in?  Han Chinese never commit atrocities?  De NILE is such a long river to run through... 

Foot-binding was DEFINITELY a Han custom which became prolific during the Song.   Manchurian women did not need to bind their feet during the Qing.  Neither did the Hakka who lived in villages outside of towns & cities.

I think both foot-binding of China and sexy(?) dresses of Korea have more practical reason behind them apart from how they might have originated.  Foot-biding obviously resticts one's mobility, cause pain and even severe deformity, especially for young women whose feet are still growing.  It would have stopped them from running fast or travel very far on foot.  It's just another way to control them, keep them submissive and ultimately protect their oyster from other eels.  I doubt that it was enforced too hard to rural or older women who had to work out in the field or no worries for getting pregnant.  It probably was more for the urban upper-middle class debutant types.  God bless them.

And  the sexy dresses,  usually Korean woman's dress is made of two pieces the top and the long skirt, well there can be also many layers of long-johns, underwear style garments.  Anyway the outer skirt is held up by getting tied from armpit to armpit covering the breasts.  But it is not very convinient when you have to nurse a baby, so I could see them tying up their skirts right below the breats to allowing the easy access for the babies to their food mounds, forthe time being.  Anyway it wasn't some special dress to expose their breast.  It was how they wore the existing traditonal dress that exposed them.

Also it could be related to their agricultural practice.  Often each farming family helped one another in heavy working seasons, like plowing, sowing, harvesting or cleaning the crop since everybody had to do it around same time.  Today, everyone  from the village work on Kim's rice field, tommorow Lee's , the day after Park's and so on.  Women often helped out on the fields when they weren't preparing meals and refreshments for the entire village.  Of course this meant taking care of children of the village. I think this might explain the 'Group Photo'.  I know it is not uncommon for a lactating Korean woman to feed another woman's baby if that was neccesary.  It was kinda  prototype of 'It takes a village to raise a child.' philosophy.

Having said all that, I don't know if you'd commonly run into a bunch of Korean woman walking around on the street with their hanging breasts out.  I know since Japanese occupation they have used such photos to paint Koreans as uncivilised, barbaric people.  It's funny actually that only photos or art works depicting such customs are from Japanese occupation period.

I actually don't have any backings for the any of the claims above.  They are just based on my understanding of Chinese/Korean history/culture.  I guess my real point was that an aesthetic value in a culture usually have a practical reason behind it which makes it even more interesting.

'A form follows a function.'  

oh my, are they trancesexuals? i havn't realized it

Originally posted by DayI Originally posted by poirot  They are sexy  I'd ride the middle one anyday He will ride on you

lol.

Mod note:  Sinosword, that picture was crude and unecessary.