Create a Bedsider Insider account. But not in a manner that would match our everyday experience. On the other hand, cases of cavus foot that do not result from neurologic disorders usually do not change in appearance. Bones in the girls' feet would often be deliberately broken again in order to further change the size or shape of the feet. Flowers in the Mirror. Some of the earliest possible references to foot binding appear around , when a couple of poems seemed to allude to the practice.