Chinese Tourist Shoes?

[vintagepretties]

how cute are these?? is there such a thing as tourist shoes, if so do you think these are what these are?

<img src=http://s50.photobucket.com/albums/f307/weebit/chin.jpg>


they have lined cloth tops that are embroidered, the platform is all wood and appears to be hand carved and hand painted. i love the scene!

<img src=http://s50.photobucket.com/albums/f307/weebit/chin5.jpg>

<img src=http://s50.photobucket.com/albums/f307/weebit/chin2.jpg>

<img src=http://s50.photobucket.com/albums/f307/weebit/chin3.jpg>

<img src=http://s50.photobucket.com/albums/f307/weebit/chin4.jpg>

any suggestions on price? i'd like to put them in rubylane and save some fees.

they were from an estate of a well traveled lady with tons of "memorabilia" so i have no clue of the age either.

thanks so much for any help!
yvonne
soft* wear
vintagepretties.

 

[hipvintage]

Are they from China or the Philippines? I know that many of these shoes were a Philippine thing.

If those markings on the bottom are original, then I'm doubting they are from China.

I wish I had a house in my shoes! :D

Janine

 

[Jonathan]

THey are from the Philippines. Years ago I found a National Geographic magazine from the late 1930s showing a market stall of a Philippino woman selling similar clogs. They were very popular tourist gifts with American servicemen at the end of WW2 and they were exported for sale in countries like Guam into the early 50s. They fell out of favour but came back in during hte 70s and I think you pair is a 70s version. They tend to use lacquered wood rather than painting the entire surface of the clog, like the older versions from the 1940s.