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Updated: May 15, 2025
Upon the feet are worn the tabi thick white socks, which may be called foot-gloves, for there are separate divisions for the toes. These serve both as stockings outside the house and slippers inside, for no boots are worn in a Japanese house.
She was dressed in the soft grey kimono and obi of a middle-aged woman, and her exquisite manner and gentleness made me feel as heavy as my boots, which I had not been allowed to take off, sounded on the delicate floor-matting compared to her soft white foot-gloves. "My friend addressed her as san, and seemed to speak to her just as a guest would to her hostess.
She answered only with a little sigh, as if weakness was such a weariness! and looked away across the garden-hedge out into the infinite into more of it at least I think, than Faber recognized. "And of all things," he went on, "wear shoes every time you have to step off a carpet not mere foot-gloves like those."
As for shoes or stockings, he had gone so long without them that he cared not even for the buskins and foot-gloves we wore, which I described above.
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