The photo of Empress Dowager Cixi, dressed elegantly, wearing gold and silver, Cixi is famous for extravagance and waste, and cares very much about her own image, including height, the flower pot shoes worn by Cixi are specially made and very high.
The photo of Empress Dowager Cixi gives people the feeling of being tall and at least 180 centimeters tall. According to various historical objects, Cixi's height is less than 160 centimeters, but many of her photos give people the feeling of 180 centimeters, because of her special flower pot shoes.
Cixi, who is 180 tall, is wearing super tall flower pot shoes.
Cixi's flower pot shoes, which were once exhibited at the Qing Dynasty Court Costume Exhibition, are estimated to be no less than 20 centimeters in height. Such shoes are generally worn to participate in some ceremonies, usually sit in a soft car, or walk slowly. The ancients attached great importance to their own appearance, and such special shoes satisfied Cixi's hobby of wanting to be high.
The two women at the end of the Qing Dynasty, in fact, at that time, women had begun to care about height, this is the two Han family women, do not wear flower pot shoes, wrapped in small feet, small shoes with high heels.
Li Hongzhang's concubine, looking slender, in fact, she wears a "heightened shoe", a bow-shaped sole, which increases the height.