Circa 1930 Women's Gown (cheong sam)
date: label: date made
content: ca 1930
name: label: user
content: Mead, Virginia Lee
label: maker
content: unknown
notes: label: Description
content: The donor, Virginia Lee, posed in a similar cheong sam for a US World War II poster and for the "Miss China" contest in New York. Also known as a qu pao, the Chinese traditional loose dress shape was modified by Western designers in the 1920's to be more close-fitting to accentuate a woman's figure. The altered dress form became broadly popular in the United States as evening wear in the late 1950's and 1960's.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: China
label: worn
content: United States: New York, Manhattan, Chinatown
topic: label: referenced
content: Immigration
label: referenced
content: Immigrants
label: used
content: Chinese Americans
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content: Home and Community Life: Costume
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content: Family & Social Life
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content: Cultures & Communities
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content: Clothing & Accessories
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content: Chinese American
publisher: label: Related Publication
content: Mead, Virginia Lee. Lee Chinese -American Family Papers, ca. 1915-1970
label: Related Web Publication
content: https://sova.si.edu/record/nmah.ac.0555
label: Related Publication
content: Mead, Virginia Lee. Photograph, Portrait of Virginia Lee in a cheongsam dress
label: Related Web Publication
content: https://sova.si.edu/record/nmah.ac.0555/ref535
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of James Edgar Mead and Virginia Lee Mead
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1992.0620.16
label: catalog number
content: 1992.0620.16
label: accession number
content: 1992.0620
objectType: label: Object Name
content: dress
label: Object Type
content: Dress
label: Object Type
content: Woman
label: Object Type
content: Main Dress
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: satin (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: silk (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: embroidered (overall production method/technique)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 51 cm x 116 cm; 20 3/32 in x 45 21/32 in