Fashionable is the character of Shanghai, is the pursuit of excellence of the old temper.
Catch the fashion, to have the courage to challenge, others are witnessing strange phenomena, on the beach, often weak women dare to be the first.
Men's women at the end of the Qing Dynasty
A hundred years ago, Shanghai women took the lead in opposing the wrapping of small feet and calling for reading. On December 6, 1897, 122 Chinese and foreign women gathered at the Zhangyuan Auditorium on Jing'an Temple Road to discuss the establishment of the first women's school Chinese themselves.
Zhang Yuan Auditorium
Kang Youwei's daughter Kang Tongwei, Liang Qichao's wife Li Duanhui, and 65 family members of foreign consuls and missionaries in Shanghai attended the discussion.
Dianshizhai Pictorial published a "picture of the skirt and the conference" documenting the gathering of this novel woman at that time, and said that it was a miracle that China had never seen in two thousand years.
Dot Stone Pictorial
Because it is a cold winter season, most of the foreign women who attend the rally use "arm cages", which is a kind of furry leather jewelry, and the arms can be inserted from both ends to keep warm. Shanghai women immediately caught up with the fashion, and soon became popular in the society a number of "arm cages" of various styles such as hair, velvet, and sea tiger velvet.
Arm cage
In the late Qing Dynasty, the most fashionable in Shanghai was the women sitting on the rubber tire charter truck, they wore extremely tight small jackets, but the collar of the jacket was very tall, straight to the two sideburns, almost half of the face was covered in the collar, and the face was covered with gold-rimmed ink crystal glasses.
Take a ride in a horse-drawn carriage
In 1890, British and American cigarettes were introduced to China, and people who used to smoke shisha, dry tobacco, and cigars switched to smoking paper cigarettes. At first, it was all men who smoked paper cigarettes, and later, Shanghai's "Picture Daily" published a picture of "the equality of eating cigarettes", and women in Shanghai also competed to imitate it, with "eating cigarettes" as fashionable, and this fashion has also been passed down to this day.
Old Shanghai Marlboro advertising
The late Qing Dynasty literary scholar Wu Yanren wrote a book "The Strange Situation Witnessed in Twenty Years", which listed many strange things that were driven out of Shanghai Beach by "catching the fashion", many of which were first arose in the boudoir and later circulated.
High-necked, gold wire glasses, and even hand cages are also fashionable among men, during the Xuan reunification years, the "hipsters" of high society began to popular "black boots", leather-soled satin gangs, walking "tick-tock", like officials appearing, Shanghai women quickly followed the trend, usually to the tenth month of the lunar calendar, taking advantage of the cold, they wore boots on the street, riding.
In the past, When Shanghai women went out, they carried things that were carried by maids, or carried their own baskets or carrying a bag. With the exquisite clothing, shoes and hats, women also began to imitate the Kun bags of foreign women, going out with only bags, putting some incense powder paper, rouge boxes, osmanthus pancreas and wooden combs in the bags, which gradually became an important symbol of modern fashion.
Rouge box
In the "Shanghai County Chronicle" of the Ming Dynasty, it is written: "The city is frivolous, the fifteen are groups, the home has no bearing stones, and the Clothes are fresh." ”
In the feudal era of the Ming and Qing dynasties, clothing was a sign of social hierarchy, such as the Ming Dynasty Shanghai area where "squires, lifters, and talents wear scarves, and the people wear hats." Cold weather flannel towels, flannel hats, summer bristles, manes hats, civilians are extremely rich, not allowed to wear scarves."
Old Shanghai "Fancy Years"
Shanghainese at least catch up with the fashion, is to pay attention to clothing and dress, the earliest broke through the Qing Dynasty since the "long shirt and horse coat" clothing ban, keen on "turning the head", accepted the Western "Youarewhatyouwear" (what you wear is what you are) concept, and finally made people's dress interpreted into the city's "style".
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