Views on beautiful feet...

[sadi]

Looking through my art book (Anatomy for the Artist) I found this little bit of information:

- in the West, countless paintings and sculptures have since at least the Renaissance portrayed feet with greatly elongated second toes, presumably because it is considered more elegant. In the East the smaller the foot the greater the beauty.

Also, only 10% of humans have a longer second toe. Now, whether that's necessarily a good thing or not, I think all depends on said person's point of view.

But, man did the Chinese take beauty to an extreme! (Though not dissimilar to anything we Westerners did back then, in our ambition for ultimate beauty) They had Chinese foot binding, where the shape and proportions of the foot were manipulated, and hopefully, stunted, as the growing feet were slowly crushed into the idealistic pied.

 

[Dr. Bill Kobb]

Go 10%'ers!

Looking through my art book (Anatomy for the Artist) I found this little bit of information:



Also, only 10% of humans have a longer second toe. Now, whether that's necessarily a good thing or not, I think all depends on said person's point of view.

My feet are like that. The elongated second toe. I haven't needed it to swing amongst the treetops lately, but it's there if I should need it, I suppose. I have frightfully oogly feet, however. I've noticed it with some women, and it IS strangely sexy/exotic then...

 

[Relent<]

I can't honestly say i discriminate. I had a friend with wonderful "foot potential", as I call; Nice toe proportions, captivating soles, and always in and out of her shoes like a school girl. But her toenails were so....short, picked so low, that it was considerably less attractive than if she would have just let them alone. Even in light of all this, I was still attracted to them, and attracted to her.
As for longer second toes, I can't say that that bothers me either. Beauty is beauty, regardless of convention. Perhaps as an oddball myself, I prefer the less conventional regards of the fairer sex.

 

[NMKamikaze1]

I don't mean to be the bad guy, but besides a flat arch, a longer second toe is the most unattractive thing about some women's feet.

IMO, when the other toes are longer than the big toe, it makes the feet look deformed. The big toe is supposed to be the biggest/longest toe on the foot. Call me a perfectionist if you want... That's just my point of view.

 

[MistressValerie1]

I don't mean to be the bad guy, but besides a flat arch, a longer second toe is the most unattractive thing about some women's feet.

IMO, when the other toes are longer than the big toe, it makes the feet look deformed. The big toe is supposed to be the biggest/longest toe on the foot. Call me a perfectionist if you want... That's just my point of view.

I generally feel the same way as you do. I am grateful for not having an elongated second toe or flat arches :lol

 

[Sir Bombers]

I think it all depends on society or everyones individual preference.

Although Morton's Toe (the name for a longer second toe) is a kind of uncommon deformity, it was actually a sign of royalty in the Greek culture...

Most of the statues back then had feet with longer second toes... I learned in my art class that this was a standard through Roman and Renaissance sculpturing....


Just type up "Greek foot" in the image part of your favorite search engine and you'll see what I'm talking about... 😉

OH and guess what the Statue of Liberty has been sculpted with as a result of the past popularity of Morton's toe.... That's right, you guessed it!

Even Lady Liberty has a longer second toes...


The type of foot that NMKamikaze and Mistress Valerie and many others prefer is the "Egyptian Foot" where the great toe (biggest toe) is the longest... the great toe is portrayed as longest in most Egyptian statues...

Interesting huh?

Yep, I actually learned something from art class! Yay! 🙂


It doesn't matter to me, I guess... I find "longer seconds" very interesting, but seeing as they are uncommon, it's rare that I find any sets at all!

😀

However, there's one foot thing I don't like... stubby toes that are all the same length with no variation. A real downer for me...

I must have the normal "Staircase" variation and nothing else... 😀

However I'll make a special exception for females with Morton's toe though... 😉

 

[melanie2]

hmm well these people were obviously born with this second toe longer than the first..short of cutting that part down, there's not much one can do about it, i'm thinking..i admit i don't like that look either..but imagine this...my husband's second and third toe on both feet are webbed...ackkkkkk to me that's icky lol....

 

[PurpleStyle]

Guess I would be Greek royalty then. I suppose that fits, since I like the color purple, and purple is royalty. :stickout

 

[Frost King]

I don't know i haven't really ran into any girls with the second toe being long but as long as the girls feet is taken care of and soft then thats good the toenails don't aways have to be painted just as long as they are soft and no dry skin i do hate the flat arch though

 

[tklmaestro]

I get some people with Mortons toe, it can drop the metatarsals due to an extended second phlange.
So I don't know about royalty but I do know it can become a Royal Pain

 

[sadi]

Heh. Well, I guess I'm royalty then.
But I still have to fall with Val and NMKamikaze; I like the appearance of a 'stairstep' foot better than having my second toe slightly longer. Until I read this, I always thought I had some odd deformity, and frequently contemplated: smashing, cutting, or sanding that toe down to less than the big toe when I was young (even though it's only 'slightly' longer).
Guess more people have that though (10% is more than being a genetic "exception" - ex. Izzy's husband). I didn't know that for sure until I read it though. Didn't know what anyone else had to compare either, really (as I'm not really a 'foot' person per say).

 

[kopfhorer1]

I don't know i haven't really ran into any girls with the second toe being long but as long as the girls feet is taken care of and soft then thats good the toenails don't aways have to be painted just as long as they are soft and no dry skin i do hate the flat arch though

I've known women with slightly beat-up feet. Nothing a little TLC won't fix! One woman let me put hand lotion on hers...🙂

 

[paracarl44]

My second toes are longer than my big toes. I really don't care to see people with great big big toes.