What do Japanese women walk with their toes turn inward?

Question

Please don't tell me "because it is the way to walk while wearing a kimono". I know this already. There are many young girls who never even wear a kimono, but still walk pigeon toed.
I am guessing parents don't correct their child's bad walking habits.

*bound feet is a traditional Chinese custom, not Japanese.*

Answer 1

Every thing about them is supposed to look delicate and dainty this is also applied to the way they walk but having saying that many of them also have bandy legs too.

Answer 2

I lived in Japan for a year, far away from other Americans. I learned to speak enough Japanese from a teacher, so that I could travel by myself around Kyushu Island. Almost instinctively, I realized that I was speaking at a higher tone, and less strident. I wasn't as "harsh" sounding and people (I think, were less put-off with my speech. It isn't a "fake pitch" for them---it's natural; while the men's tones are much deeper and kind of "guttural" (as I remember it.) I think that it's natural for cultural differences. Re the so-called pigeon toed walk...I never noticed, but I think that must be from wearing the "getas" sp? the "shoe" soles with the two straps sp? from each side, to the one loop at the front, that is worn between the big toe and the rest of the smaller toes. At least when I tried wearing them, I had to kind of turn the front of my feet inward in the effort to keep my toes IN the straps.

Answer 3

American Indians walk pigeon toed.
The Native American Indians would squat down to take a **** and have their toes pointed inward to avoid shitting on themselves.
When the American Indian seen a white mans (Europeans) footprint they would call the white men ---"CHIT HEELS"
this is not a new story as I heard it from my parents and also a Methodist minister told me this 30 years ago.
When women in Japan and else where in the east they do not have a toilet like our western (some do now) but they squat down and CHIT get the picture? Well, I had to learn the hard way too! lol but this is no bull chit..check it out

Answer 4

er...i'm japanese and i don't walk like that. just because you've happened to see one japanese woman walking like that doesn't mean everyone else walks like that, too.
and it is not the way to walk by wearing a kimono. i am perfectly capable of walking normally while wearing a kimono.

Answer 5

Is to make their feet smaller, is kind of a tradition thing.

Answer 6

No, no, no, no, no! When they get borned they cut their toes and they bundle them in a tourniqeut (smth like narthex). And so, they are forced to walk with their toes inward