Fashion Revolution Of Chinese Clothing In Thirty Years

2008/12/20 11:38:00 49

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There are colorful gowns in the window. Young girls in the streets are dressed in pink sportswear and plush hats, and even their pet dogs are wearing cowboys.

It is unthinkable that thirty years of retrogression will take place before China implements the reform and opening up policy.

At that time, people walking in the street wore navy blue, army green or brown wool suits, and there seemed to be no difference between them.

Ma Yun, a twenty-two year old drama student, said: "in the past thirty years, China has undergone tremendous changes in any country in the world."

For months, Ma has been immersed in her own film world. She has collected a lot of text and picture materials to prepare for a film that will be filmed back to 1978. The movie attempts to recreate thirty years ago in the old style alleys of Shanghai, where ordinary people live in simple food and live in oil and salt.

Wang Shaohui, who was born in 1972, believes that the thirty years of reform and opening up have changed dramatically.

As editor of fashion magazines, Wang is very sensitive to clothes. "When I was little, there was no word" fashion ". In my memory, people were wearing black, navy blue or olive green uniforms at that time.

Chen Jinhua, a retired industrial planning official, wrote in his memoirs that the introduction of the concept of "fashion" is a symbol of China's opening up to the world.

Chen Jinhua also said that in the 70s of last century, China still struggled to get enough food and clothing. It was a difficult task to feed 1/5 of the world's population with seven percent of the land.

Thirty years ago, because of the shortage of materials, people could only shop by tickets. A family's annual coupons were enough to buy a new suit.

In many informal occasions, people who can't wear shirts can sew a shirt collar on ordinary clothes.

Thirty years later, young people blogged their "spoils" that they had just bought.

Author Zhang Lijia said, "(show) my clothes are enough to keep my blog updated for two years."