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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Any Jewelry, post: 406077, member: 2844&quot;]Not really, besides, the man&#039;s shoes are showing, wide apart. I think his feet are meant to be in them.<img src="styles/default/xenforo/smilies/wink.png" class="mceSmilie" alt=";)" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>In many parts of Asia, a man sitting with his feet wide apart denoted power. I don&#039;t know if that was the case in China, but here is a 19th century photograph from Java where it was:</p><p><img src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/57/COLLECTIE_TROPENMUSEUM_Sultan_Hamangkoe_Boewono_VI_van_Jogjakarta_%281855-1877%29._TMnr_60002136.jpg/491px-COLLECTIE_TROPENMUSEUM_Sultan_Hamangkoe_Boewono_VI_van_Jogjakarta_%281855-1877%29._TMnr_60002136.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p>Hamengku Buwono VI, sultan of Yogyakarta, Java, Indonesia.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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