Chinese Women and Their Feet.

Manawatu Herald, 21 May 1898, Page 4

Chinese Women and Their Feet.

The small footed Chinese women usually make their own shoes of bits of silk ■•nibroidered in gold and colors. Very . fy work they make of it, too, a shoeU£l^K simply soling these bits of emmiicor . In curio Bho p g the g j olt)e kot. proicory. f imeg ick secondhand tcr may some * ce t m ust beoftenTd SSSsi«£B ii ; .r. 1. There are womeu ™se duslno;r, it ia to go from hou*> to jaLirlvis, bandaging and treating * nes © :.- .-luiecl members. A woman of i^nk 1,r .; fiometmies one amah whose special dncyit ij to care for her tiny but trou-ulo.-ome feet. Chinese women who possess small feet are, T.-hilo proud of them in aragy, very shy r.nd unwilling to exhibit tfrem to foreigners. I had great difficulty in coLi.slng' a Chinese woman of ranu^ to givo mo a glimpse of her wee footv 'j^h© four smaller toes are pressed under t^e sole, and the whole weight falls really upon tlie great toe in walking. The ankle is very large and distorted, but the log ia thin and wasted from inactequato exercise. The tout ensemble' i'rom a western point of view is far from beautiful if not absolutely repulsive.—