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Exhibit showcases changing fashion trends of the country
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AN exhibition highlighting the changing fashion scene in China is on display at the Shanghai Textile and Costume Museum at Donghua University.
A total of 210 pictures capture the trends, style and etiquette of the last six decades.
“The pictures are not of celebrities taken by famous photographers, but of ordinary people that reflect the real fashion history of China,” said Li Yongzhi, Vice President of the university.
One of the pictures on display is about a group wedding held on May 20 in 1951 in Shanghai. Among the 12 new couples are the parents of Jiang Zhiwei, the planner of the exhibition and president of the Donghua University Press Co.
In the picture, the brides are all wearing white gowns and veils, while the bridegrooms wore suits and bow ties.
Jiang said the picture was kept by his mother carefully for 64 years.
Other pictures are of people posing in traditional long gowns and Qipao, popular in 1950s, simple style, but mainly in blue, grey and black colors that were popular during the Cultural Revolution.
Then there is the colorful shirts and bell bottoms of the 1980s, followed by the fast-changing styles of the 1990s and the 21st century when fashion became big with the opening up and reforms of China.
“My family had a lot of such pictures but most of them were lost when we moved house,” said one woman in her 60s. “It’s nice to see so many similar pictures here. The family albums make me think about how I had taken such pictures with my brothers and sisters.”
“The wedding photos are similar in style of my parents. One picture of a child riding a tricycle reminded me of my own childhood when I had one of that as well,” said another visitor.
The exhibition runs until June 11.
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