An image illustrates the flood wall used in Germany. [Photo/thepaper.cn]
A series of photos of an elderly woman wearing just that hit Chinese messaging app WeChat recently. The fashion icon in her eighties is a Chongqing local in Southwest China who took those photos during her visit to her granddaughter Lin Dan in Shenyang, capital of Northeast China's Liaoning province.
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