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The film tells the story of Tao Xing'er, a female worker in a cotton mill and a young labor model, who broke through the shackles of old ideas and boldly pursued the beauty of fashion.
Shanghai Dafeng Cotton Spinning Factory in the early 1980s. Ah Xiang, a female worker from the countryside, heard that the girls in Shanghai had the habit of wearing beautiful clothes in competitions, called "chopping clothes" and "chopping skirts", so she asked the self-employed "Little Suzuki" who sold clothes to buy a beautiful red silk dress to wear on her body, so as to resist the female workers laughing at her as a countryman. Labor model Tao Xing'er liked this red dress very much and quietly tried it on herself. Ah Xiang found that Tao Xing'er was very beautiful in wearing a red dress, so she invited her to go to the park to "cut the skirt". The duty chief was very unaccustomed to the red dress with bare shoulders and arms, and Tao Xing'er quietly added a white-collar white subsidy to this red dress. As a result, they were ripped off by the female partners.
At the instigation of her companions, Tao Xing'er finally came to the park with the female workers. She plucked up the courage to walk alone among the walls of the people in full view, boldly compared beauty with colorful skirts, and "chopped" all the beautiful shirts and skirts. From the "cut skirt", Tao Xing'er felt his heart stretch and began to perceive the bondage of the old concepts on him.
One day, Tao Xing'er and her friend Ge Jia missed a cloth defect point that could not understand their responsibilities at the threshold of the handover. And in order to preserve the reputation of her factory labor model, even in Ge Jia, Ge Jia also undertook it out of righteousness to her friends. The female workers were quietly discussing this matter, and after Tao Xing'er knew, she felt very guilty in her heart. She worked overtime and hard; when she knew that Ge Jia also wanted to go to college, she asked the duty chief for Ge Jia to take the opportunity to take the exam, and gave up the possibility of going to college to Ge Jia during the exam. Who knows, Tao Xing'er's wish was discovered by Ge Jia when she examined the examination papers, and Ge Jia, who had a straightforward and frank temperament, refused to accept Tao Xing'er's secret gifts and insisted on not enrolling in school.
The mechanic Dong Xiaoqin was Tao Xing'er's lover when he joined the team, and five years ago, when Dong Xiaoqin was transferred back to Shanghai, he once abandoned Tao Xing'er for various reasons, but he still loved Tao Xing'er. For five years, they worked in the same workshop, day and night, but Tao Xing'er still refused to forgive Dong Xiaoqin. After Dong Xiaoqin confessed to her many times, he had to painfully transfer to the public security bureau. When Tao Xing'er finally understood that she and others would have shortcomings and mistakes, she forgave Dong Xiaoqin.
In order to elevate his status, Ah Xiang hypothesized that his brother was in Hong Kong, and bought clothes and socks from "Little Suzuki", but said that it was "Hong Kong goods" and sold them to female workers at a low price. Ah Xiang put her salary in to fill the deficit of her high price and low price, so she had to sell her clothes "Little Suzuki". The duty chief came to question Ah Xiang on behalf of the organization, and Ah Xiang cried bitterly, saying that he only wanted to spend money to buy an equal status, and could not stand being ridiculed as a "countryman". Tao Xing'er redeemed ah xiang's clothes, and Ge Jia also reprimanded the female workers who ridiculed ah xiang. At the group meeting that helped educate Ah Xiang not to look down on herself, Tao Xing'er unexpectedly reviewed the weakness of her own guilt that she did not dare to admit in public. She finally understood that the youth of the 80s should be more bold and sincere in life.