23rd May 2010 (14)
BIG FEET THIN GIRL
At this time and age, developed societies consider nicknaming people
being a form of discrimination. I was thin and tall when I was little. I was
nicknamed by my father as 'thinny'. My second younger sister always spilt
food and drinks on her dress and she was nicknamed 'filthy'. When I think
of this now, he was horrible. However, it was not his intention to
discriminate against his daughters. He just found it fun to call us by our
nicknames in a jokingly way.
I have grown to be tall and thin. My height was considered above the
average girls in Hong Kong. My feet had grown to an unusually large size
amongst the Chinese. My shoe size is 40 and there were not many girls'
shoes of size 40 in the shops in Hong Kong. As I constantly had difficulty in
finding shoes of the right size, my father always bought me boys' shoes. I
could only enjoy wearing ladies shoes when I took up my first job. Very
often I had to have my shoes made to measure. There were a number of
shoe shops in Happy Valley which made stylish matching shoes and band
bags which was fashionable at that time.
The size of my husband's shoes is the same as mine. In my young days I
often saw mature women with bound feet which were about 3 to 4 inches
in length. It was only until 1949 that the practice of bound feet on young
girls were abolished.
Yuen-yee
BIG FEET THIN GIRL
At this time and age, developed societies consider nicknaming people
being a form of discrimination. I was thin and tall when I was little. I was
nicknamed by my father as 'thinny'. My second younger sister always spilt
food and drinks on her dress and she was nicknamed 'filthy'. When I think
of this now, he was horrible. However, it was not his intention to
discriminate against his daughters. He just found it fun to call us by our
nicknames in a jokingly way.
I have grown to be tall and thin. My height was considered above the
average girls in Hong Kong. My feet had grown to an unusually large size
amongst the Chinese. My shoe size is 40 and there were not many girls'
shoes of size 40 in the shops in Hong Kong. As I constantly had difficulty in
finding shoes of the right size, my father always bought me boys' shoes. I
could only enjoy wearing ladies shoes when I took up my first job. Very
often I had to have my shoes made to measure. There were a number of
shoe shops in Happy Valley which made stylish matching shoes and band
bags which was fashionable at that time.
The size of my husband's shoes is the same as mine. In my young days I
often saw mature women with bound feet which were about 3 to 4 inches
in length. It was only until 1949 that the practice of bound feet on young
girls were abolished.
Yuen-yee
Telephone in my young days