Rita
BORn
London
year of birth
1966
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Last year, I went back to the UK and I was digging around for stuff and I found these childhood slippers.
I use to wear these slippers in my home in England, I loved the sound they made, that clacking sound. My sister and I would go up and down the stairs and make the clacking sound running up and down. I know my sister had the red pair and I had the green pair. I love that it says ‘FREE TOES’, that’s the name of the brand. It actually says ‘Made in Hong Kong’ you don’t see many things that say that anymore.
When I found them again I thought I should do something nice with them. They are still pretty intact and so I thought I’ll go to Hong Kong and have them framed.
As a little girl, you like pretty little things, they have little embroidered flowers on top and it’s got a gold braid that goes around. I don’t think they are fancy slippers, they were probably just bought at a market stall but of course, for us, they were really special because we didn’t have anything like that in the UK. It felt so special.
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去年，我回到英國，到處找東西，就發現了這雙小孩子的拖鞋。
我以前在英國的家裡，總穿這雙拖鞋。我很喜歡它們發出的聲音，噹噹響。我和我的家姐總是穿著它們上下樓梯，跑來跑去弄得噹噹響。我記得我家姐的是一雙紅色的，我的是一雙綠色的。我很喜歡它上面的牌子寫的「放飛腳趾」， 還有「香港製造」的字樣，現在你都找不到這樣的東西了。
當我發現它們的時候，我決定好好對它們。它們仍然完好無缺，所以我決定去香港把他們裱起來。
小女孩都喜歡漂亮的東西。它們上面有繡的花，還纏著金色的穗帶。我覺得它們並不稀奇，說不定就是在集市攤販那買的。但是對我們來說，它們好特別。因為英國沒有這樣的東西。給人感覺很新奇。