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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Any Jewelry, post: 9602604, member: 2844&quot;]Someone down on their luck maybe?</p><p>Overhere they come up for auction every two weeks or so. Unfortunately bidding usually goes over my paygrade.</p><p><br /></p><p>Simply a belt used and often also made by Peranakan people, also known as &#039;Straits Chinese&#039;. The Straits they are part of the old maritime trade routes of SE Asia: Malacca Strait, Java Strait, Madura Strait, etc.</p><p><br /></p><p>Peranakan women were given these when they were (very) young, so their waists were still slender.</p><p>When I was in my early 20s I had a 45cm waist (17.7&quot;). Needless to say, I don&#039;t anymore, at my ripe old age.<img src="styles/default/xenforo/smilies/biggrin.png" class="mceSmilie" alt=":D" unselectable="on" /> But a 30&quot; Peranakan belt would fit me, only just.</p><p><br /></p><p>I am 1.60m, so 5&#039;24&quot;, and considered TINY in the Netherlands, aka the land of giants.<img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie75" alt=":playful:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p>So it wasn&#039;t just back then. Some women, especially East Asian women, are small. And small young women generally have slender waists.</p><p><br /></p><p>As an aside, there used to be a saying in Java that a rickshaw would fit either three Javanese women, or two Chinese women, or one European woman.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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