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Thursday, May 23, 2019
SHOES were all the talk. This was Jakarta in the early 20th century. To be precise: shoes were the talk, European schools, Dutch students, non-Dutch students, and behind it all, colonialism.
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“For my MULO junior high I dressed the prescribed way—shorts, jacket buttoned up to the neck—but still just sandals, not yet shoes. It was 1920, and I still did not wear shoes. I did not have shoes. Only when I was about to enter the HBS senior high—almost all the students there were full-blood Dutch, not like in MULO, where there were mostly Eurasians—I became nervous. However, when the dancing lessons began at the
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