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China’s civil war, which led to a Communist victory in 1949, pushed the centre of qipao fashion from Shanghai to Hong Kong. Faced with an environment hostile to private business and glamorous fashion, many Shanghainese tailors fled south, bringing with them their craft and technical knowledge.
2 paź 2019 · From baggy get-ups to personalized outfits, styles have evolved as China's women caught up with the changing times. Here's a rundown of some of the most memorable fashion moments in the country's 70 years of existence.
As a signature of traditional Chinese women's attire, cheongsams of the Republican China era, which could be worn either for daily wear or for grand occasions, were popular among...
26 paź 2018 · Hong Kong as the site of East-West intersection provides an ideal context for probing the complex identity politics surrounding the quintessential female fashion item in modern China: the cheongsam, the Cantonese equivalent of the qipao.
Men in blue gowns donned felt caps and leather shoes, girls began to wear fitted jackets and narrow pants, and homespun garments gave way to machine-woven cloth, often made in foreign lands.
30 sie 2010 · Aug. 30, 2010. HONG KONG — All students of fashion know how the 20th century transformed women’s clothing in the West. Corsets were loosened, hemlines rose, and designers like Coco Chanel and...
13 kwi 2022 · Couple Western influence with the young Chinese republic’s rejection of tradition and you start to see where these women got the idea to make the early cheongsam tighter, shorter, and more risqué. Women sporting the flapper dresses and ‘high heels’ of the 1920s.
