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<p>[QUOTE="Any Jewelry, post: 4526810, member: 2844"]Beautiful, Jose. I love the colour combination and am looking forward to seeing more photos.</p><p><br /></p><p>Fashionable Chinese ladies in Singapore, and to a lesser extent Peranakan ladies, would have worn Cheongsams, but it isn't of Singaporean origin.</p><p>The Cheongsam is associated with Shanghai, but the fashion spread from there.</p><p>The asymmetrical closure is of Manchu(rian) origin. It was introduced to China during the Qing dynasty, which was Manchu.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Any Jewelry, post: 4526810, member: 2844"]Beautiful, Jose. I love the colour combination and am looking forward to seeing more photos. Fashionable Chinese ladies in Singapore, and to a lesser extent Peranakan ladies, would have worn Cheongsams, but it isn't of Singaporean origin. The Cheongsam is associated with Shanghai, but the fashion spread from there. The asymmetrical closure is of Manchu(rian) origin. It was introduced to China during the Qing dynasty, which was Manchu.[/QUOTE]
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