Chinese Dress

Recent blockbuster movies like Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon, Shanghai Noon, and with the likes of Asian actors like Jackie Chan, Jet-Li and Zhang Ziyi, the entertainment scene has indeed contributed to the growing appetite for cool Asian garb. Chinese dress is already becoming a hit eastern-style dressing etiquette, be it for any occasions.

Chinese Dress is not a traditional garb like one may assume, but is fit for all party ocasions, casual streetwear, for the office(from clerical to CEO), various dancing (hip-hop in a slit-length chinese dress anyone? Salsa?), and wedding events. And why not? With the sleek figures of a chinese dress slipped on, it can rival any Prada or Gucci fashion, as it just ooze sex appeal to the fashion concious.

For what it's worth, with a history of 2000 years, dated back to the Tang Dynasty, chinese women were already wearing skimpy, skin showing chinese traditional clothing for the noble, and royalty status. Peasant garbs are designed to withstand the harsh weather, while the more elegant chinese dress that asian women wear were a whole industry of it's own. Ancient designers not only focus on the cuttings, and strategic skin exposures (while still being decently garbed), but also the brocade patterns repetition density, color combination, Opacity/translucent percentage, and thread embroidery just to name a few. Borderline scientific, no? And this was 1000 years before the renaissance where women were allowed to show bosoms. Many have mistaken that Asians are a conservative bunch.