Till the 1930s, Manchu people, no matter male or female, all wore loose-fitting and straight-bottomed broad-sleeved long gowns with a wide front. The lower hem of women's cheongsam reached the calves ...

A digital jacquard loom knits patterns onto a cut piece. [Photo provided to China Daily] Hong Kong had over 2,000 cheongsam makers in the 1960s when the city's tailoring industry was booming. That ...