The guard must customize the two shoes for the old man
Shandong Commercial Daily
it is understood that although the "foot binding" of the elderly is gradually decreasing, however, older women, especially 100 year old women, still have not. Few people need "foot binding shoes". According to a press survey, it is really not easy to buy a pair of "foot binding shoes" at present. According to Zhang Zhixiu, a nursing worker in an elderly apartment, doing "foot binding shoes" is really a technical activity. If you want to wear fit, it is best to "customize privately". Reporter Wang Xinchao Intern Xuan Xiaoxia
"the market is too small, no one is willing to invest"
yesterday, the newspaper reported the woman who lived in a pension apartment in Ji'nan, because he was young when he was young, so we can't buy the right shoes today. Ms. He's foot is about 17, 18 centimeters long, even 19 centimeters of shoes, the shoes are covered with a layer of good insoles, a loose belt on both sides of the shoe, and a little cotton in the tip of the shoe, which can not be hung up on the old man's feet.
the reporter also interviewed another "foot binding" old man. Zhang Qiuyun, who was born in 1915, is 100 years old. He lives in Daxinzhuang, remote wall town, Licheng District, Ji'nan. The old man wrapped his feet in his youth. "All you do when you are young, now you can wear ordinary shoes, the top, the small, and the special 'foot binding shoes' are not very good," her son Yang Haijiang told reporters.
it is understood that there are fewer manufacturers in mass producing "foot binding shoes" with the gradual reduction of foot binding old people. At the same time, there are fewer people willing to sew such shoes, which makes it difficult to buy a pair of "foot binding shoes". Reporters visited many shopping malls, supermarkets and even cloth shoes stores in the provincial capital, and no shoe binding shoes were found. "Seven or eight years ago, when my old man was still alive, he could still buy such shoes, which is rare now," Zhao told reporters.
recently, more than 300 enterprises and pension institutions participated in the "old fair" opened in Ji'nan. However, reporters at the exhibition site did not see any special manufacturers for shoes.
"business is sure to invest in the market. There are few people at the moment, the market is very small, so there is not a lot of people to invest in this area," an elderly industry insider said. Similarly, nearly 100 years old may not be all tied up with
"perhaps more women who are in the middle of life now have feet binding." Ms. Lin, who worked for 7 years as an elderly apartment in a provincial capital, said. "Their generation basically wrapped their feet and said they could not find a good family."
it is understood that as of the end of 2014, there were 5932 hundred centenarians in Shandong Province, of whom women accounted for more than 80%. Meanwhile, according to the data released by the Ji'nan municipal Aging office, by the end of 2014, the total number of centenarians in the city reached 244, an increase of 15 over 2013. Among them, 207 women, accounting for 84.8%.
Ms. Chen, 79 years old in the apartment for the elderly, said she had caught up with a good time without binding her feet, but her elder sister and mother had not been able to escape from the fate of foot binding. "Foot binding can be suffered, the toes are folded, wrapped in long strips of cloth, and then sewed with two twine threads. At that time, the feudal society, especially the countryside, had much more foot binding. " Even after the lifting of the ban on foot binding in the Republic of China, many feudal rural families still asked their daughter to bind their feet for fear of affecting marriage.
, but in the 100 year old man who has been nursed by Ms. Lin, there are several elderly people who do not have feet binding. "I had nursed a hundred year old lady before, and she didn't foot it up at all." Ms. Lin told reporters, "the old lady has several sisters, all of whom live a long life. They are centenarians. It is said that she has a good family environment, attaches importance to education, and sent her to school early, and her family is relatively liberal. Ms. Lin said that families born in cities and receiving new education are usually more open-minded, and have not forced their daughters to suffer from foot binding.
however, Ms. Yin, a 98 year old man from rural areas, has no foot binding. "Many of the elderly people of my mother's age are wrapped up in their feet, but listening to my mother says that she was in a very far and very remote country, less people, unlike most of the women outside the foot. Coupled with poor living conditions, the family needs labor, it can not walk and can not work, but it is not affected by the foot binding. Ms. Yin's little daughter told the reporter.
it is difficult to customize the price is not cheap
after trying to search for "foot binding shoes" on the Internet, the online shop for the sale of old shoes, the main products are similar to "old Beijing cloth shoes" shoes, the minimum size is also 30 yards (suitable for the foot of 20 centimeter), not applicable to the foot. A more than a dozen centimeters of the foot binding old man. And continue to search "three inch Golden Lotus shoes" and other keywords, the reporter found that online sales of such shoes size generally also in 22 centimeters or more. Shoes below 22 cm need extra order. The reporter found a shop in Yunnan that could customize shoes, but the sales of shoes in the shop were below 10. The shop owner told reporters that the specially made shoes are mainly made of 20 centimeters, and those with a size less than 20 cm need to be out of their shoes, which means that more time and cost are needed. Each pair of shoes will be reserved for one month after the order is submitted. At the same time, the price of each pair of shoes is about two, three hundred yuan, and the postage is not included.
sixty day nursing workers are willing to make shoes for feet bound elderly
"you do not look for it, I make shoes for the elderly!" Hearing the reporter worried about buying shoes for the elderly without foot binding, Zhang Chi - Ho, a 61 year old nursing home in Ji'nan's heart home elderly apartment, volunteered. It is understood that Zhang Zhixiu's mother-in-law had also wrapped her feet. She died 8 years ago. "These two days are not good every day. Tomorrow will be the sun, and I will paste the congee with sticky porridge." Zhang Zhixiu pointed to the cloudy sky outside. "Rain doesn't work."
, she told reporters that after the rice was cooked into sticky porridge or paste, paste on the flat cloth and put it in the sun and dry it, it became a pare. According to the shoes that are painted, three layers of scissors are cut out, which is the sole suitable for the elderly. "Three layers of masks are wrapped in new cloth. The turns are not soft nor hard, but the old man walks comfortably." Zhang Zhixiu drew a shoe sample on a piece of paper and told it to the reporters. "The upper should be cut a little bit larger, leaving some room for binding."
Zhang Zhixiu said that since he was old, her eyes had been spent, and needlellines had done less, but if the old man could not buy shoes, she was willing to make shoes for the elderly. "Every old man has different foot styles, some of which are thin and thin, and some are fat. To wear a fit, each pair of shoes is not the same. " Zhang Zhixiu said that people in need were able to look for her in the old apartment, or to give her four good sizes, the length of the foot, the width of the front feet, the width of the heel and the height of 7 centimeters at the tip of the front foot. "Try to be precise so that you can fit your feet," Zhang Zhixiu said.