Following the big trend Feiyue shoes set in the global fashion industry, another style of Chinese old-fashion shoes becomes the focus of attention among fashionistas throughout Europe, America and Japan, the so-called “Chinese liberation shoes” (Jiefangxie in Chinese) or “Ospop.” (in the U.S.).
In China, almost everyone knows Liberation shoes, which were originally a part of the first uniform of China’s People’s Liberation Army in 1950. For about 40 years, the Liberation shoes were absolutely the most trendy shoes among the Chinese people, from the old to the young and from adults to kids. Until in the 1990s, liberation shoes went out of fashion and only those with a low income such as building workers would like to wear the old-fashion footwear for hard labor work.
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