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Thread: Flip flops catching on in China?
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[quote=DODGER,302865]My Wife’s Grandmother had bound feet, so it wasn’t that long ago. My understanding is that it was middle to upper-class Han habit. Please read Pang Mei Chang’s book “Bound feet & Western Dress (Bantam books) She gives some good insight into this. The foot was supposed to resemble the shape of a lotus leaf, so you can work out what was done. The toes where bent back towards to heel. This slow process started at about the age of five. The Manchu women did not bind their feet. Alicia Archibald helped form the Ant Foot binding league in the late 19th centenary but I don’t think it was banned until 1949. Dodger. [/quote]
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