When did dresses first come to China?

Dress was introduced into China in the late Qing Dynasty. At that time, people, especially those with some status, wore robes and mandarin jackets that were considered as "the quintessence of Chinese culture". Whoever is the first to put on a suit is of course against the world. After the middle period of Guangxu (1875- 1908), more and more students went abroad to study, and suits became popular among them at first.

After 19 19, as a symbol of new culture, suits began to impact the traditional robes and mandarin jackets, and then suits gradually became popular in China. In the 1920s and 1930s, with Shanghai, Guangzhou, Tianjin and other coastal developed cities as the center, a craze for wearing suits was set off among young students, teachers, foreign companies, employees of various institutions and other upper classes and schools.

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China's first dress was born in the late Qing Dynasty. It was made by "Red Tailor" for the famous democratic revolutionary Xu Xilin. 1903, Xu Xilin met Ningbo tailor Wang, who was studying suit craft in Japan. The following year, Xu Xilin returned to China and made a custom-made suit in the Thai suit shop opened by Wang Kai.

It took Wang three days and three nights to sew the first domestic suit in China by hand. At that time, its technology may not have exceeded the production level of western countries, but it has fully demonstrated the superb technology of "Red Tailor" and become the forerunner of China's western suit in the world.