Prizes were given by looking at women’s ankles, this strange competition used to happen years ago, marks were given on the feet!

Society has always seen women as objects. What they should wear or not, how much they should cover themselves, when they should cover their face, when they should not… all these are the gift of male dominated society. This feeling was instilled in people’s mind that only fair women are beautiful, because of this many creams also did their propaganda to make them fair. Competitions like Miss World, Miss Universe were also done in which marks are given on the beauty of women. But do you know that leave aside the beauty of women’s face in olden times, people used to pay a lot of attention to the beauty of women’s feet as well. Today we are going to tell you about a strange competition (prettiest ankles competition England) which used to take place years ago and women’s ankles were seen in it.

Some black and white pictures often go viral on social media, in which some men are seen giving marks to women by looking at their feet. Recently, a similar picture was posted on the Twitter account @info_tale, in which a man wearing a suit-boot is giving marks to women after seeing their legs (Prettiest legs competition). The surprising thing is that in this picture the faces of the women have been hidden, only their feet are visible. The account claims that this photo is from the competition of the most beautiful feet running in Paris, France in 1950.

Numbers used to be given on women’s ankles
This picture is really surprising but you will get to see many such pictures. According to a 2015 report by the Daily Mail News website, in the olden times, in England and many other countries of Europe, there was a competition of the most beautiful ankle which was organized only for women. In this competition too, marks were given to women by looking at their feet, especially their ankles, and then the woman who scored the highest marks became the winner.

Competition started from England, spread to many countries
According to the report, this competition used to be held on a very large scale in England. The photos of this competition during 1930 also go viral. The woman was made to stand behind the curtains so that her face and body were hidden. Only their feet, especially the ankles, were kept outside the curtain. After that the judge of the competition, who was usually a policeman, used to give marks by looking at the feet. This competition went on till 1940, but then the veil was removed and along with the bodies of women, marks were also given on their personalities.

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