Cheongsam (UK: / tʃ (i) ɒ ŋ ˈ s æ m /, US: / tʃ ɔː ŋ ˈ s ɑː m /), also known as the qipao (/ ˈ tʃ iː p aʊ /) and sometimes referred to as the mandarin gown, is a Chinese dress worn by women which takes inspiration from the qizhuang, 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 ...

Hanfu Movement (simplified Chinese: 汉服运动; traditional Chinese: 漢服運動; pinyin: Hànfú yùndòng), also known as the Hanfu Revival Movement (汉服复兴运动; 漢服復興運動; Hànfú fùxīng yùndòng), is a cultural movement seeking to revitalize Han Chinese fashion that developed in China since 2003.. It is a social movement which aims at popularizing hanfu and ...

Hanfu (simplified Chinese: 汉服; traditional Chinese: 漢服; pinyin: Hànfú) is the traditional styles of clothing worn by the Han Chinese.There are several representative styles of hanfu, such as the ruqun (an upper-body garment with a long outer skirt), the aoqun (an upper-body garment with a long underskirt), the beizi and the shenyi, and the shanku (an upper-body garment with ku …

Chinese pre-wedding customs are traditional Chinese rituals prescribed by the 禮記 [láih gei] (Book of Rites), the 儀禮 [yìh láih] (Book of Etiquette and Ceremonial) and the 白虎通 [baahk fú tùng] (Bai Hu Tong) condensed into a series of rituals now known as the 三書六禮 [sàam syù luhk láih] (Three Letters and Six Rites). ...

A skirt is the lower part of a dress or a separate outer garment that covers a person from the waist downwards.. At its simplest, a skirt can be a draped garment made out of a single piece of fabric (such as pareos).However, most skirts are fitted to the body at the waist or hips and fuller below, with the fullness introduced by means of darts, gores, pleats, or panels.