Object Details
- unknown
- Description (Brief)
- 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.
- 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.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Credit Line
- Gift of James Edgar Mead and Virginia Lee Mead
- ca 1920
- ID Number
- 1992.0620.11
- catalog number
- 1992.0620.11
- accession number
- 1992.0620
- Object Name
- vest, girl's
- Object Type
- Vest
- Girl
- Main Dress
- Physical Description
- fabric (overall material)
- Measurements
- overall: 41 cm x 57 cm; 16 5/32 in x 22 7/16 in
- 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
- place made
- World
- Related Publication
- Mead, Virginia Lee. Photograph, Lee family portrait
- Related Web Publication
- https://sova.si.edu/record/nmah.ac.0555/ref530
- Related Publication
- Mead, Virginia Lee. Lee Chinese -American Family Papers, ca. 1915-1970
- Related Web Publication
- https://sova.si.edu/record/nmah.ac.0555
- See more items in
- Home and Community Life: Costume
- Family & Social Life
- Cultures & Communities
- Clothing & Accessories
- Chinese American
- National Museum of American History
- referenced
- Immigration
- Immigrants
- used
- Chinese Americans
- Record ID
- nmah_1119964
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746a9-9f29-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa
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