Proceedings of the International Conference on Electronics, Mechanics, Culture and Medicine

On the Transformation and Popularity of the Cheongsam in Modern Time

Authors
Ying Ding
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Ying Ding
Available Online February 2016.
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10.2991/emcm-15.2016.127How to use a DOI?
Keywords
Cheongsam; The status of the development; The popularity; Design; A combination of western and eastern elements
Abstract

For thousands of years, all the Chinese women dresses were made through the straight cutting in tailoring. The bosom, the shoulder, the waist and the buttocks of the clothes were all straight. The women’s line of beauty didn’t show completely at all. As far as the cheongsam, the characters were also kept. After the Revolution of 1911, the Chinese women started to understand what the line of beauty under the effect of the western economical culture is. After that, the cheongsam was improved and recreated from the insignificant tailors to the famous designers, showing the women’s line of beauty exhaustively. Nowadays, the cheongsam which play an important role in women’s life has become a culture. Comparing and researching the change of modeling and the character of structure of the cheongsam of different periods, which will have very important significance towards how to keep and expand the traditional national culture and understand the popular trend of the cheongsam.

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Volume Title
Proceedings of the International Conference on Electronics, Mechanics, Culture and Medicine
Series
Advances in Computer Science Research
Publication Date
February 2016
ISBN
978-94-6252-163-6
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2352-538X
DOI
10.2991/emcm-15.2016.127How to use a DOI?
Copyright
© 2016, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.
Open Access
This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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