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cheongsam
Also known as qipao, mandarin gown
Qipao (; ), also known as the Cheongsam (, ; ) or referred to as the mandarin gown, is a Chinese dress worn by women which takes inspiration from the , the ethnic clothing of the Manchu people. The cheongsam is most often seen as a longer, figure-fitting, one piece garment with a standing collar, an asymmetric, left-over-right () opening and two side slits, and embellished with Chinese frog fasteners on the lapel and the collar. It was developed in the 1910s-1920s and evolved in shapes and design over years. It was popular in China from the 1920s to the '60s, overlapping with the Republican er
Key facts
- Clothing type.name
- Cheongsam
- Clothing type.image_file
- Qipao women.jpg
- Clothing type.image_size
- 230px
- Clothing type.caption
- A woman in a qipao
- Clothing type.type
- Dress / female outwear
- Clothing type.material
- Diverse, such as silk, silk-like material, cotton
- Clothing type.location
- China
- Clothing type.introduced
- 20th century
- Chinese.pic
- Cheongsam (Chinese characters).svg
- Chinese.piccap
- "Cheongsam" in Traditional (top) and Simplified (bottom) Chinese characters
- Chinese.picupright
- 0.425
- Chinese.s
- 长衫