
Chinese One Piece Dress
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This is the dress that has got tongues wagging in Vietnam for actuality not Vietnamese enough. Thuy Dung, aloft Miss Vietnam 2008, and appearance model, afresh wore this dress bottomward the aerodrome at a Spring-Summer appearance appearance in Rome. She has back appear beneath advance for cutting a dress that is “too Chinese” in style.
“Ao dai” is the name of the acceptable continued Vietnamese dress beat by women and is conceivably one of the best iconic genitalia of Vietnamese culture. However, some in Vietnam aren’t blessed with the contempo change of this cultural symbol.
After accommodating in a appearance appearance that was aimed at adulatory Vietnamese style, Miss Dung has appear beneath advance for clay a piece that adapted the country’s acceptable academic dress and was apparent as actuality “too Chinese”. Critics accept alleged the architecture a “desecration” of the acceptable ao dai continued dress, alike activity so far as to say that, “Inappropriate changes may abort to back the adorableness of Vietnamese acceptable costumes.” Back the appearance appearance was meant to advertise acceptable Vietnamese clothing, it’s not adamantine to see their point. In the past, critics accept been unhappy with modifications to ao dai fabricated by designers in the name of appearance and accept beat the use of “foreign motifs” like the dragon architecture beat by Thuy Dung.
The motif, design, and off-the-shoulder strapless appearance of the dress were not in befitting with the traditional, bourgeois ao dai. Typically, the dresses affection a aerial close and continued sleeves and are beat with trousers beneath (seen below).
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The dress in catechism was advised by Thy Nguyen, and the access of the Cheongsam (Chinese qipao) – the jumpsuit Chinese adornment dress – are evident.
The artist has dedicated her dress, saying, “[Designers have] the appropriate to accept whatever actual they accept represents the outfit’s appropriate qualities, alike if it is from a adopted source, and abnormally back bond attitude and modernity.”
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As the neckline of the acceptable ao dai has crept bottomward over the aftermost decade, the akin of criticism has risen. The red dress afresh sported by Thuy Dung is aloof the latest in a alternation of controversies surrounding aloft Miss Vietnam contestants in showcasing the ao dai. Mai Phuong, champ of Miss Vietnam 2006, acquired a activity back she modeled a adaptation of the ao dai that was accounted too racy.
This white dress (featured above) was so cellophane and absolute that she was about bare of her Miss Vietnam title.
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And this orange ao dai, beat by Hoang My, the aboriginal runner-up in Miss Vietnam World 2010, was additionally accounted to be “revealing” by critics for its ancillary splits and one-shoulder band design.
What do you think? Was the dress not Vietnamese enough? Is it accept to modify traditional civic dress in the name of fashion? Let us apperceive in the comments below!
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Source: ShanghaiistTop image: People’s Daily OnlineImages: Wikipedia (Dmitrichang777), dtinews.vn
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