On Aug 29, 2007, at 2:14 PM, Sharon Henderson wrote:
I am attempting to replicate the look of this for a non-opera purpose.
In an online article about the Chinese traditional opera (an article
I cannot now find... alas...) there is a picture of three actors who
have brought some children up on stage with them and put them in the
garments, and on one child you can see that the undergarment
apparently crosses over the front wrap-style, like a kimono, and that
while the sleeves are huge and long--the body of the garment itself is
barely waist-length. If it's that short on a child, I can imagine it
must be like the little white blouse worn with traditional dirndls:
very short indeed! :-)
If...
...you're in the SF Bay Area...
and
...you don't need to finish this quickly...
...I know where there's going to be a trunk show of vintage Cantonese
Opera costumes from the Cantonese Opera Society of Sunnyvale at the
end of September. You can probably get a look at original garments of
this type.
andy
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