Talk:Lotus shoe

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A pair of lotus shoes, which are shoes that were worn by women in China who had bound feet. They were delicately constructed from cotton or silk, and small enough to fit in the palm of a hand. They are cone or sheath-shaped, intended to resemble a lotus bud. Though foot binding is no longer practiced, many lotus shoes survive as artifacts in museums or private collections.Photo: Daniel Schwen

Some of these were apparently temple offerings

At least according to a sign at Northampton museum the ones in their collection were never meant to be worn but were meant to be temple offering. I can't currently find anything about it in RS.©Geni (talk) 23:05, 24 May 2023 (UTC)

Unclear

Much of the article is not about the shoes themselves but about foot binding in general. As far as I understand, the shoes were not the primary mechanism used to modify the foot but rather footwear adapted to the shape resulting from foot binding; either way, the article needs to specify which it is. Instead of general information about foot binding, I would expect such an article to provide more technical information about how and why these shoes differed in shape from ordinary shoes and how their peculiar shape was conditioned by the shape of the bound feet. 62.73.72.3 (talk) 14:34, 29 September 2024 (UTC)