Object Details
- Mead, Virginia Lee
- unknown
- Description
- 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.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Credit Line
- Gift of James Edgar Mead and Virginia Lee Mead
- ca 1930
- ID Number
- 1992.0620.16
- catalog number
- 1992.0620.16
- accession number
- 1992.0620
- Object Name
- dress
- Object Type
- Dress
- Woman
- Main Dress
- Physical Description
- satin (overall material)
- silk (overall material)
- embroidered (overall production method/technique)
- Measurements
- overall: 51 cm x 116 cm; 20 3/32 in x 45 21/32 in
- place made
- China
- worn
- United States: New York, Manhattan, Chinatown
- Related Publication
- Mead, Virginia Lee. Lee Chinese -American Family Papers, ca. 1915-1970
- Related Web Publication
- https://sova.si.edu/record/nmah.ac.0555
- Related Publication
- Mead, Virginia Lee. Photograph, Portrait of Virginia Lee in a cheongsam dress
- Related Web Publication
- https://sova.si.edu/record/nmah.ac.0555/ref535
- 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_1119978
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746a9-a044-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa
