While doing research for the last paper, I came across this site http://www.powerhousemuseum.com/hsc/evrev/ which describes the changes in Chinese dress from the latter Qing Dynasty through the late 20th century.
Here is a picture of shoes worn during the mid-19th century for women who bound their feet (left). With cloth heels and embroidered silk uppers, they were made in China about 1850.
Powerhouse Museum collection
The cheungsam, seen in the picture to the right, became popular with the growing awar
eness of women's rights. After such restrictive traditions in dress, Chinese women selected the cheungsam as their national dress. The women portrayed on the calendar posters dressed in sleeveless cheungsam with high side-slits. This picture depicts a 1930s advertising poster for Qidong Tobacco Company showing a fashionable woman wearing a cheungsam.
eness of women's rights. After such restrictive traditions in dress, Chinese women selected the cheungsam as their national dress. The women portrayed on the calendar posters dressed in sleeveless cheungsam with high side-slits. This picture depicts a 1930s advertising poster for Qidong Tobacco Company showing a fashionable woman wearing a cheungsam.Powerhouse Museum collection.
Imagine getting married in this (below), a red cotton velvet jacket (xiao'ao) worn by a 26-year-old actor for her wedding in 1977. The jacket was made by the Cultural Revolution Clothing Factory in Peking, though the Cultural Revolution had already ended. Most couples who married at this time wore uniforms (zhifu).
Powerhouse Museum collection.
Below are some more contemporary designs
from 1997 found on this site. They are slightly
reminiscent of the past.
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