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The Costume of China

Plate XLIV. A NURSERY MAID AND TWO CHILDREN.

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The annexed are portraits of a female servant, and of a male and female child, which will give a tolerably correct idea of the dresses worn by them respectively. That of the maid servant differs in nothing from her mistress, but in the materials; the latter generally wearing silk, and the one in question cotton. A Chinese woman of the meanest condition would feel herself degraded if not allowed to mutilate her feet.

Illustration from The Costume of China Picturesque Representations of the Dress and Manners of the Chinese

China—Plate 45

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