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Wearing Cheongsam For Chinese Valentine'S Day

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In the 20s of the last century, cheongsam was still relatively large, with more wind reserved for the banners.

Headstream: the robe of the banners

Cheongsam, as the name suggests, originally dressed in Manchu women's traditional clothing, entered the customs in the Qing Dynasty, and Han women gradually accepted cheongsam.

In modern republic of China Regulations, there are even "formal clothes": Men's wear, long gowns, Liriodendron, women's wear and Qipao.

In the 54 period, the young female students of the blue cloth Qipao were almost the image representatives of Chinese women in an era.

Most of the photos of mother Song Qingling are dressed in cheongsam of various styles and fabrics.

Cheongsam is a modern Chinese woman's "national costume".

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After decades of silence, cheongsam became fashionable again in twenty-first Century, and more bold designs were applied to cheongsam.

Rebirth: the new cheongsam style

After the 50s of last century, cheongsam was gradually fading out of the wardrobe of women in social and political factors.

After 1978, the social culture was open, and people were always fascinated by fresh Western things. Jeans, miniskirts, and suspenders were on the streets. Making cheap cheongsam seemed to become the hostess's uniform.

On twenty-first Century, on the one hand, people returned to tradition to find national confidence. On the one hand, cheongsam was re valued and returned to the stage of fashion because of the opportunity of love and so on.

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The characteristics of cheongsam also provide designers with Chinese elements to incorporate into the design of western style dresses.

Designer Wen Hong: can Qipao wear the subway?

Wen Hong, a Shanghai designer who designed the Tang costume for APEC leaders, together with two designers, Gao Chunming and Yi Hui, restored hundreds of cheongsam from the end of the Qing Dynasty and the beginning of the Republic of China, and jointly supported the "sea flower".

She learned from the traditional skills of "banding, embedding, rolling, dashing, putting, sticking, embroidering and drawing" the cheongsam: "Qipao is an exquisite manual integration. The general handmade cheongsam has at least three thousand five thousand needles, and the exquisite six thousand or seven thousand needles, such a way of craft and needle stitching, are the essence of the gown.

A lot of craft can see the model wearing on the T platform. Actually, it is not felt. Just a rolling process can have numerous changes. The details are all wonderful.

This hand-made tradition, of course, is no match for the large industry's production line, missed the big industry shuttle bus, and the cheongsam is now back to the fashion front desk, only by the high order Dongfeng.

However, Wen Hong did not consider it the only way for cheongsam: "now cheongsam can only be remembered on occasions of weddings and parties, but in the 20s and 30s of the last century, Qipao was the most common dress worn by ordinary women."

So, wearing a cheongsam to take the subway?

Why not?

The vitality of cheongsam is constantly changing. From wide sleeves to short sleeves, the cheongsam is always the cheongsam, and the cheongsam is always the most attractive one for Eastern women.

Wen Hong is trying to use some modern cutting methods and fabrics to make cheongsam: "rigorous and formal like a suit, today can have so many fashionable changes. Cheongsam really revival, must adapt to today's way of life, as designers, this is the most interesting topic."

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By 30s and 40s, the improved cheongsam inspired by Shanghai culture has become the most fashionable Chinese fashion.

Metamorphosis: cheongsam of Shanghai style

In Shanghai, cheongsam became a unique creation of the Shanghai style culture in the 20s and 30s of the last century.

The Shanghai woman who first got the west wind began to try to pform the traditional cheongsam in accordance with the European and American fashion. The original wide width and big sleeves shortened the length and pinched the waist. The beauty of the curve showed boldly that in addition to the core elements of the gown of the flag men, such as the collar, the oblique collar, the buckle, the side slit, the cheongsam of the Shanghai style was quite different in its tailoring, texture and decoration.

The development of the film industry in Shanghai has made Zhou Xuan, Ruan Lingyu, Hu Die and so on a group of female celebrities who are very popular. They are also the earliest fashion icon in China. The cheongsam in the movie is one inch short, and the Shanghai women on the street immediately catch up with the trend.

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