Chinese Culture: What is the Cheong sam dress?

[Cecil Lee]

[Archive: Family Photos : 1930's to 1940's]
What is the Cheong sam?
1. The Cheong sam is a dress worn by women. (Usually, the middle and upper class).
2. The beauty of the Cheong sam is that it allows a women to `show off' their figure!
3. To this day, it is still continued to be worn by many women for formal occassions e.g. wedding dinners and other functions.
Is the Cheong sam comfortable to be worn?
1. Sorry, I am not a lady so cannot truely comment.
2. I understand that you as it is tight fitting, you really and I mean really must have the figure to wear it else it may be quite uncomfortable.
Can the Cheong sam be worn by the young (young ladies) and the old)?



Yes, provided you still have that `sexy' figure and would like to flaunt it!


In some of the pictures, (for example, my grand mother who is seated on the extreme right at the front row of the second picture attachment below).
It is common to see shapely `elderly' ladies, wearing the cheong sam. They do have the figure indeed.
For those who log in to the web forum, you can view quite a few pictures from my private family collection.
I believe the pictures are taken around 1930s to 1940s.
Warmest Regards,
Cecil