Tang-style Costume Gets Hot in Shanghai

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Tang-style Costume Gets Hot in Shanghai

The "Tang-Style Costume Street" in Shanghai has been enjoying high popularity for its traditional Chinese attire following the costume pattern of Tang Dynasty (618-907). Its fame soared higher after the convocation of the APEC meeting in Shanghai at which Tang-style satin jackets were offered for APEC leaders.

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Tang Dynasty costumes more Popular in China

Located in Changle Road on one side of Shanghai's Jinjiang Hotel, the "Tang-Style Costume Street" has been enjoying high popularity for its traditional Chinese attire following the costume pattern of Tang Dynasty (618-907). Its fame soared higher after the convocation of the APEC meeting in Shanghai at which Tang-style satin jackets were offered for APEC leaders.

On the street are costume shops of various grades and features. Some sell modern costumes with a traditional touch, such as cloth-knotted buttons and round flower patterns. Others offer 100 percent traditional attires such as mandarin gown, which reminds you of a shop in the 1930s. In a shop named "Meimei", you can even find a set of handmade Tang costumes (shirt, jacket and trousers), featured with embroidered "flying dragon" pattern and priced nearly 30,000 yuan.

Most shops provide costumes made to order. Walking on the street, you can feast your eyes on Chinese costumes without buying anything particular.

Why the Chinese costumes so popular? After famous Chinese movie star Gong Li attracted the world with a white woman's cheogsum at film festival, many Shanghai young people followed suit, trying to show them off in Tang dresses at various banquets. The getting-in-fashion was also owed to the attire provided to APEC leaders at Shanghai meeting.

Along with these costumes are ornamental gadgets such as lady's handbags with cloth-knotted buttons to match a jacket, jewel case shaped like a shoe, table cloth with round flower patterns, even "Tang-jacket" made for mobile phones...

This has proved an old saying that only things of a national touch can prevail in the world.

By PD Online Staff Li Heng

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