Little Girl Dress

Little Girl Dress

Monday, June 16, 2003

Pretty is as pretty does and GoodOrient.com's clothing line for girl's is to die for! All little girls love to look pretty and that will be achieved easily with any outfit you find here.

During the last century girls wore the bulky side-fastening ao and trousers cut along the same lines as their mothers', but without the skirt which was the prerogative of married women. By the beginning of the twentieth century, however, amid greater emancipation for women and more outside influences affecting Chinese clothing, Chinese dress, cheongsam, Oriental dress, any girls were formally educated. As the century advanced, they began to wear a slimmer version of the ao with a plain black skirt. Then, with the development of the female qi pao after 1925, young girls began to wear dresses with a shaped waist and fastening down the center-back. Older girls wore the qi pao like their mothers. Better educational opportunities for girls in the mid-1920s brought the need for a school uniform which reflected the Chinese style of dress. In place of Western-style gym slips, girls wore a plain cotton qi pao with wrist-length sleeves and short slits at the side of the hem.

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