Several beautiful ladies wearing traditional Chinese costume Qipao and had group pictures on the top of Funiushan Mountain in central China's Luoyang city of Henan province on August 9, 2015. The ladies hold oilpaper umbrellas and walking ...
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Peng Liyuan is more than simply China's first lady. She enjoyed a glittering career as a folk singer from the 1980s. Since President Xi Jinping took office in 2013, she has also attracted a lot of attention from home and abroad. She is ...
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An exhibition and a forum marking the 100th wedding anniversary of Dr. Sun Yat-sen, the forerunner of China's democratic revolution, and his wife Madame Soong Ching Ling were held at Madame Soong's former residence in Beijing on Oct 25. ...
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In order to celebrate the 35th anniversary of the twin cities (also known as sister cities or partner towns) of Milan and Shanghai, the Italian fashion capital has opened an exhibition that showcases the evolution of the Chinese traditional ...
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Clothing has always been the first thing to change following with the birth of a new Chinese dynasty, says Fang Hongjun, who has studied Qing Dynasty (1644-1911) clothing for 24 years at Beijing's Palace Museum. The Qing Dynasty's ...
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Hi-Tech Printing & Labeling, Inc. offers woven labels, adhesive labels, organic clothing tags, and more to garment makers and manufacturers this wedding season, but in a multicultural area like Southern California, wedding garments mean ...
What Are Cheongsams Cheongsam, a female dress with distinctive Chinese features, known to the whole world as a language that expresses the beauty of oriental women, now enjoys a growing popularity in the international world ...
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In China, women had different kinds of clothes in ancient times. Those clothes changed with the revolution of dynasties. For examples, in the 1920s, the Cheongsam was fashionable among socialites and upperclass women; during the 1960s, very ...
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Formal wear (US, Canada) and formal dress (UK, Australia, New Zealand, and other Commonwealth Realms) and eveningwear are general terms for clothing suitable for formal social events, such as a wedding, formal garden party or dinner, ...
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If you want to order a custom-made (= tailor-made) Qipao / Cheongsam, but you are afraid to order through Internet, then we can suggest you by our own experience: Try it out! Good Chinese tailor shops present you a lot of varieties: At ...
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When the Manchu ruled China during the Qing Dynasty, certain social strata emerged. Among them were the Banners (qí), mostly Manchu, who as a group were called Banner People. Manchu women typically wore a one-piece dress that ...
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Modern use In the 1950s, women in the workforce in Hong Kong started to wear more functional cheongsam made of wool, twill, and other materials. Most were tailor fitted and often came with a matching jacket. The dresses were a fusion of ...
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The cheongsam is a body-hugging one-piece Chinese dress for women; the male version is the changshan. It is known in Mandarin Chinese as the qípáo Wade-Giles ch'i-p'ao, and is also known in English as a mandarin gown. The ...
Garments The style of Han Chinese clothing can be summarized as containing garment elements that are arranged in distinctive and sometimes specific ways. This may be different from the traditional garment of other ethnic groups in China, ...
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The cheongsam is a female dress with distinctive Chinese features and enjoys a growing popularity in the international world of high fashion. The name "cheongsam," meaning simply "long dress," entered the English vocabulary from the ...
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