GENERAL FACTS:
- fashionable, very style conscious and unique
- Mostly practical wide vestments
- Since 1930 more figure-accentuating dresses for women
- Schooluniform
BACK THEN:
- Traditionel and convenient
- Fashion as a medium to express wealth
- Pale painted face
- Distingushing feature between different social and vocational classes
CHEONGSAM / QIPOA:
- Traditional chinese dress
- Seasonally fitted
- Usually without accesoires
- Figure accentuating embriodered velvetdress
TODAY:
- The cheongsam & chinese worrior chlothes retatined
- Modern style-consious clothes
COMPARISON:
Chinese fashion:
Colorful, detailed, cute & playful, Never shown: neckline or too curt Shorts
Western fahion:
Covered plain colors, convenient, seasonally fitted, comfortable
(Helen Sülzen)