Why has the tall ancient toe "flip flop Alice"?
Or "onward and upward" or hidden blade used as a female self-defense secret device
Although the ancients hate duck flip flop, but not annoying duck. Yuanyang be regarded as "love birds" in a class of birds duck embroidered shoe pattern decoration phenomenon is not uncommon. Especially after the Han and Tang, women commonly duck motifs footwear, become the trend. Tang Dynasty poet Linghu Chu in "miscellaneous song Songs · far parting," a poem that is to say:. "Toi weave duck shoe, Gold emerald curtain" where "duck shoe" is not different colors of duck flip flop, but A fine workmanship, in toe flip flop embroidered with exquisite duck's. In addition to embroidered mandarin duck, as well as embroidered crested, bird head, and fell dove and other patterns in the toe, corresponding called "crested shoe", "bird head shoe", "V dove head" and so on. Common features of these flip flop are toe tilt, the ancients called "shoe Alice."
Alice shoe design, although not unique to China, but it is typical feature of ancient Chinese flip flop. Ancient men's flip flop are Alice head, the difference was "man woman round." Alice shoe designs have appeared earlier in the ancient times, to the emergence of the Han Dynasty head 絇 revolutionary shoe design differences, the so-called "manifold head shoe." Changsha Mawangdui Han, Hubei Jiangling Phoenix Mountain 168 Han, have unearthed manifold head shoe bicuspid Alice head. Since then, even the texture of the grass hemp flip flop will design a high-toed flip flop Alice. Sui and Tang dynasties, women's flip flop styles change, mainly in the shoe head, or round or square or pointed, or divided into several lobes, or increase the number of layers, but are high-toed flip flop Alice design.
Alice shoe design is quite particular about, such as the more upscale high-head cloud shoe, with white as flip flop, blue cloth as high, pull the cloud head vamp, with green cloth as a strip about the split, across six on each side, symbolizing December .
Even if there is a "lotus feet" after five generations, that is worn by women with bound feet pointed little flip flop, did not give up flip flop Alice design. Alice shoe care why the ancients? There's a lot of round after round. First, Alice shoe sole system integration, so it should not be cracked soles and uppers, durable; Furthermore, the ancients wear gown, flip flop Alice can hold skirts, will not step on the soles and fall. In fact, Alice shoe design also includes the ancient plain good wishes, put on toe flip flop high, is not "onward and upward"? Also, Alice shoe design and architectural design department of a real concept of ancient upturned roof, make the flip flop lighter style has become prominent.
flip flop Alice's secret is not limited to this, it also self-defense, to consider self-defense. Miao women in the past often hidden blade flip flop at shoe Alice in Alice, in the event of sexual assault on the occasion, this blade is to repel predators, protect the chastity of secret device.
