The so-called miser’s purse is known by many names: miser bags, ring or string purse, long purse and stocking purse to name but a few. This purse dates back to the late 18th century and was popular until the early 1900s.
In China, for over a thousand years, tiny feet were symbols of feminine beauty, elegance and sexuality. If you were a Chinese woman living between the late Tang Dynasty (618-907) and 1949, small, slim, soft and pointed feet were a must have. When looking at photographs of curled, callused toes and gnarled bones it is difficult to see the beauty, but for a thousand years men adored these tiny feet lotus or lily feet, as they were called.