Comments on: Love, Shoes and Madness http://hoongyee.com/2010/02/14/love-shoes-and-madness/ style notes for people who change the world Fri, 11 May 2012 21:23:23 -0700 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.3 By: hoongyee http://hoongyee.com/2010/02/14/love-shoes-and-madness/comment-page-1/#comment-252 hoongyee Mon, 15 Feb 2010 18:55:09 +0000 http://hoongyee.com/?p=569#comment-252 <a href="#comment-250" rel="nofollow">@erna marcus </a> hi erna even though that tradition is dying, i feel women are still bound to notions regarding shoes, power and status. that is one reason i am intrigued by the idea of creating my own shoes. best, hoong yee @erna marcus

hi erna
even though that tradition is dying, i feel women are still bound to notions regarding shoes, power and status. that is one reason i am intrigued by the idea of creating my own shoes.

best, hoong yee

]]> By: erna marcus http://hoongyee.com/2010/02/14/love-shoes-and-madness/comment-page-1/#comment-250 erna marcus Sun, 14 Feb 2010 13:59:06 +0000 http://hoongyee.com/?p=569#comment-250 Hey, thanks for crediting my picture: it was taken in Pingyao, China in 2008 and they are indeed the small shoes for women with bound feet. When I first lived in China for a year in 1979, I saw old, old women who were then in their eighties or nineties who still had bound feet - the last generation. I do not think there are any left, but there might be still a handful. Such a painful and crippling custom for millions of women for hundreds of years... Hey, thanks for crediting my picture: it was taken in Pingyao, China in 2008 and they are indeed the small shoes for women with bound feet. When I first lived in China for a year in 1979, I saw old, old women who were then in their eighties or nineties who still had bound feet – the last generation. I do not think there are any left, but there might be still a handful. Such a painful and crippling custom for millions of women for hundreds of years…

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