What are the equivalent idioms for "trim the foot to fit the shoe"?

Say you have a beautiful shoe but its size is too small for your foot, what would you do to wear it? We Vietnamese people would recommend you to "trim the foot to fit the shoe". How would English people say on the act of doing everything to keep the wrong thing?

Though it doesn't sound as dramatic, an idiom which comes very close to "trim the foot to fit the shoe" is put the cart before the horse. Refer to the definitions below in this context:

To put things in the wrong order or with the wrong priorities (shoe over foot).

to put something inconsequential (shoe) as more important than something more essential (foot).

Wiktionary:

Verb
put the cart before the horse

(idiomatic) To put things in the wrong order or with the wrong priorities; to put something inconsequential as more important than something more essential.

shoe the goose TFD

To attempt a futile or pointless task.