THE CHINA-STYLE: CHANGING FASHION

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)