1915 - 1925 Chinese American Girl's Vest
date: label: date made
content: ca 1920
name: label: maker
content: unknown
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: One of the Lee daughters wore this casual Chinese-style outfit on special occasions, for none of the children wore Chinese dress for every day wear. The trouser band or fu tau , translated as the “head of the trousers,” was folded over and secured with a belt or cord and covered by the vest.
label: Description (Brief)
content: Lee B. Lok, his wife Ng Shee, and their seven children lived above the Quong Yuen Shing & Co. store in New York City's Chinatown. Though the children wore Western clothes and participated in the local Scout troop and other clubs, their parents required them to attend Chinese school each day, from 4-7 PM.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: World
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. Photograph, Lee family portrait
label: Related Web Publication
content: https://sova.si.edu/record/nmah.ac.0555/ref530
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
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: 1992.0620.11
label: catalog number
content: 1992.0620.11
label: accession number
content: 1992.0620
objectType: label: Object Name
content: vest, girl's
label: Object Type
content: Vest
label: Object Type
content: Girl
label: Object Type
content: Main Dress
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: fabric (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 41 cm x 57 cm; 16 5/32 in x 22 7/16 in
label: Measurements
content: overall, mounted with trousers: 38 1/2 in x 20 in x 14 in; 97.79 cm x 50.8 cm x 35.56 cm