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Previous post - Next post | Parent - | Posted on 2005/7/12 23:21
kousei  ???   Posts: 0
Hello DOZE-san,

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You found footwear very dear to me. I remember mines were not as good as those of the picture in quality but careless a little in workmanship.

Oh, DOZE-san knows too.
Although they look good in quality from the picture, they might have been casual footwear, because the surface is substitution of rush and the back is not paulownia but relatively heavy cheap wood.

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Before the war, pavements of streets in Senba, Osaka were wooden bricks, and the sandals might be suitable for walking on them. Wooden brick pavements are perfect spread of brick-like cut pieces of hard wood soaked with asphalt(?). They seemed good for prevention of noises raised by horse and ox carts with iron rims.

I don't think I know the wooden brick age. What I remember is that high heels as thin as pencils were popular when I was a girl, and I also habitually used them. The heels were caught sometimes by small openings. I now suspect such streets might have remained then still.

Touches of wooden bricks were soft for wheels of the age lacking rubbers, weren't they?

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I remember workmen with those sandals walked on such pavements. I then wore high clogs with magnolia wood supports. My house was a shop and I had never seen anyone who wore the sandals. I am not sure but I remember the sandals raised somewhat curious noises while walking.

I see. Different footwear has its own unique sound. I know high geta clogs with magnolia wood supports. They seem to have been favourites of high school students and above, or young men of marriageable age. Thinking over them, I wonder why they wore such difficult things to walk. They must have been in a kind of fashion. Was there any merit for high geta clogs?

There were flat sandals for men with tatami mat surface, weren't they? Men working as school janitors wore them, I remember. They should have been good as they didn't make noises when janitors walked corridors.

Karei

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