Lead: Some netizens should know that Empress Dowager Cixi loves gold and silver jewelry very much, and her life is quite luxurious. And this strong woman who has mastered the Qing Dynasty for more than ten years has always been at the forefront of fashion and is the leader of the trend. If we put Empress Dowager Cixi in the present, she is a serious dress blogger, because he is too particular about her dress. In other words, up to now, every dress of Empress Dowager Cixi is regarded as haute couture.
Empress Dowager Cixi's Fashion Back Garden
Empress Dowager Cixi has her own fashion single product factory, which is located in the Summer Palace. Different from modern clothing manufacturers, Empress Dowager Cixi's factory started with sericulture, and the subsequent steps such as silk weaving, dyeing and manufacturing are readily available.
Even the children who work here have higher status. In Qian Qian, in order to protect their jade hands, they don't have to do rough work, and there are special canteens to provide them with food. There are so many maids working there that they are reluctant to leave when they get married, because it is really a good job.
I have to say that the level of the shoe factory is excellent, and the embroidery of the upper is even made for real flowers. It can be seen that the skills of embroidering maids at that time were also very good. We can carefully observe the excessive color of real flowers and show it with skillful hands and lines.
Exquisite details
In addition to the exquisite upper, the heel that is easily overlooked by us is also very attentive. As we know, ancient shoes were the shoes at the bottom of flowerpots, in other words, high heels, and the height was about 7cm to 12cm.
The reason why the heel is carefully made is that in order to reduce vibration and noise, the sole is sewn together with many layers of cloth.
At the same time, the heel is not exposed, and it is inlaid with pearls of different sizes, and then arranged and combined on the heel. Use at least 20 yuan and at most 500 yuan.
There are so many exquisite details that it takes a lot of effort to make shoes. It takes about a month to make a pair of shoes, but for Empress Dowager Cixi, she just looks at them and puts them in a shoe store.
Shoes worth 702 thousand
Empress Dowager Cixi was born to like gold and silver jewelry and lived a luxurious life. As we all know, when she died, she had a big pearl in her mouth, which was priceless. Most of the funerary objects were gold and silver jewelry.
It is precisely because of this feature that many ministers will try their best to give her some precious jewels, precious stones, agates, pearls and so on in order to please her on holidays or birthdays.
Once Yuan Shikai gave Empress Dowager Cixi a pair of shoes. Those shoes are inlaid with the best pearls, which can be said to be rich and powerful. At that time, it cost 700,000 taels of silver to make these shoes.
However, after the collapse of the Qing Dynasty, Empress Dowager Cixi fled for her life, and the palace was in chaos. Many ladies-in-waiting and eunuchs stole some valuable things in the palace, including these shoes, in order to make plans for their future. This pair of shoes was later bought by a British businessman for 202,000 yuan. Today, these shoes are also priceless. After all, it is a cultural relic.