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It was the 1990s. Portraying a woman unshod was less idealized aestheticism and more of an expression of ritualized archerypes. It wasn't until the mid 00s with the proliferation of affordable digital cameras and digital drawing pads did people have the resources to reference and perfect without having to dredge the worst corners of the internet or print media. By the early 10s the hermeneutics of fetishistic suspicion infiltrated every depiction of unshod females as the social media arms race brought the worst attention whoring and degenerate fixation into a tight embrace.

The prototypical reporductively available unshod female falls into the coy/feminine/vulnerable or adventurous/tomboyish/coquette categories. Lara is clearly in the latter category, and with the archetype comes low inhibition and sexual availability. The only time you will see a woman's foot bottoms in a polite society is when she is on her back with the legs up or on all fours. The picture works on a symbolic level to activity male sexual attention despite being nominally a tame, poorly modeled example.