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Antique Chinese Child's Red Silk Embroidered Dragon Baby Booties Boots Shoes. Tweet
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This pair of vintage antique Chinese child's red silk embroidered dragon baby booties boots shoes date from the 1920s. They are made of a red silk fabric, with colorful hand embroidery work of dragons along the sides and creating a cute three dimensional animal face on the fronts with long blue silk fringe whiskers. Dragon shoes were used to frighten off evil spirits and to help a toddler learn how to walk. They were used as a protective symbol to attempt to ward off the high mortality rates. These precious long baby booties boot style shoes have red silk soft bottom soles and are fully lined in a red and white gingham check cotton fabric inside. The shoes measure 6 inches tall, 3 1/2 inches long, and 1 1/2 inches wide. They are in good condition, gently worn, with only some slight wear and soiling. The shoes are a beautiful piece of antique Chinese textile art and would make for a wonderful display piece!
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