Lotus shoe
Tiny shoes traditionally worn by wealthy women as early as the 10th century. Girls’ feet were bound very young. This restricted a woman’s mobility and so her involvement with the outside world. So for men it was an alluring symbol of chastity.
Object Summary
- Accession Loan No.
- E1872/1
- Category
- Ethnography
- Collection Class
- Clothing and accessories
- Material
- leathercottonsilk
- Common Name
- lotus shoe
- Simple Name
- shoe
- Production Country
- China, People's Republic of
- Production Year High
- 1880
