When it comes to Huang Huilan in the Republic of China period, everyone may not be familiar with it, but her identity is absolutely unforgettable, and she can be called a strange woman who can be counted in the Republic of China.
First of all, her father Huang Zhonghan is indonesia's richest man, a famous industrial king, so she is also known as the "richest lady of the Republic of China".
Secondly, her husband Gu Weijun is a famous diplomat and can be called the first diplomat of the Republic of China, so she is also known as the "First Lady of the Republic of China Diplomacy".
In addition, she also has one of the most famous nicknames - "the most dressed woman in the Republic of China".
Such a woman is destined to be a storm figure in any era.
Speaking of her elegant name, there is also an interesting story, which Huang Huilan told in her autobiography "There is no unbroken feast".
In the late autumn, Shanghai suddenly became popular with bare-legged wearing cheongsam, and the leader of this trend was Huang Huilan. At that time, she suffered from a skin disease in her legs and could not wear stockings, so she wore a cheongsam bare-legged. As a result, on the same day, the fashion girls in Shanghai all took off their stockings and chased this fashion.
Soon after, Huang Huilan's skin disease improved, and she put on the stockings again, and as a result, everyone put on the stockings with her. In today's terms, Huang Huilan is a typical fashion leader and street photography idol.
If this story does not convince you of Huang Huilan's position in the fashion industry, then the fact that the three Song sisters once learned to dress from her is enough to show her leading position in the fashion industry.
In 1914, Song Xialing and Kong Xiangxi were scheduled to marry in September. They were in Japan at the time and would also be married in Japan, but Japanese women wore kimonos, which made Song Xiaoling very bored, and found several design companies, and the designed clothes could not satisfy her.
On this day, Song Xialing specially took out money, sent a family member to buy the best camera, and after the camera was bought, Song Xialing took out the ferry ticket and let the family rush to the United States with the camera. What are you going to do in the United States? It is to find Huang Huilan and then photograph her clothes in the United States.
After the family arrived in the United States, they specially followed Huang Huilan for a month, and then quickly returned to Japan to wash out the photographs of Huang Huilan and let Song Haoling choose. After Song Xialing got the photo, she chose a thousand choices, and finally chose one as her wedding dress, and shined at the wedding.
There is also Song Qing-Ling, who followed Sun Yat-sen in his early years to make a revolution, and has always been accustomed to wearing a top and a skirt underneath. One year, she came to Beiping with Sun Yat-sen, lived in Huang Huilan's home, compared with Huang Huilan, Mrs. Sun suddenly found that her dress was too rustic, so she secretly imitated Huang Huilan's dress.
Huang Huilan is also very enthusiastic, made detailed suggestions for Mrs. Sun's dress, from her status to be classic and kind, from the perspective of the development of the times to be fashionable and pretty, finally, Mrs. Sun followed her advice, began to change her dress, and finally had the elegant, dignified classic image.
In 1943, Song Mei-Ling visited the United States, and diplomat Gu Weijun and his wife Huang Huilan also accompanied him.
During this period, Mrs. Jiang wanted to go to various parts of the United States to raise money, and she proposed that her image should be beautiful and generous, and this task was given to Huang Huilan. According to Mrs. Jiang's figure and status, Huang Huilan quickly designed several sets of cheongsam schemes, and Mrs. Jiang felt very suitable after wearing them, and she was also very grateful to Huang Huilan.
Mrs. Jiang wore these qipao, wandered all over the United States, conquered the United States with fluent English, and also conquered the United States with the unique curved figure of the qipao, showing the unique oriental beauty, and became the object of American competition for a while. Therefore, when Mrs. Jiang summed up her visit to the United States, she always praised Huang Huilan and said that she had made great achievements.
However, such an elegant and fashionable queen was not very successful in marriage, because Gu Weijun had another new love, and the two divorced in 1956. Since then, Huang has lived in New York, died in 1993, and lived for a full 100 years.
History Inn Author: Desert Sand