But then, another source says he asked another tailor (by a completely different name) to design it. --Dpr Different sources are telling me different things about its origins. --Jiang
However the suit is becoming more popular amongst young
Readability is still an important feature! It is also prevalent among Chinese peasants as casual dress.
Does a "business suit" include leather shoes?
There's a good pic over on de, if anyone knows how to transfer it across? Exactly. Who said Mao suit must include some sort of hat? What is the deal here?
The eye-catching dark blue suit, slim-cut with a standing collar, is a simplified and redesigned "Zhongshan suit", or "Mao suit" - a typical formal garment for Chinese men. Another says it was based on the dress worn by Chinese immigrants in Japan and Southeast Asia. The Russian gymnasium uniform (called "gimnasterka" in Russian) is very similar and became a part of military uniform and later that of the party. --Sumple 23:01, 2 August 2006 (UTC) There is no difference between the Zhongshan Suit and the Mao Suit - one is the name by which it is known in China, the other is the name by which it is known in the West. Are they both based on the German military uniform? Take for example, Stalin's suit which looks very similar. The modern Chinese tunic suit is a style of male attire known in China as the Chungshan suit or Zhongshan suit and known in the West as the Mao suit.Sun Zhongshan introduced the style shortly after the founding of the Republic of China as a form of national dress although with a distinctly political and later governmental implication. Why is one of these suits more ingrained into a national identity than another?--In Japan, the boys' school blazers are very similar.It's a much better title and more culturally faithful to China. The paragraph stated that this style of clothing was common in Japan and southeast Asia before Sun Yat-sin brought it to China. Are there any citations for the contents in the "Misconception" section? The Mao suit, also known as Chinese tunic suit or tunic suit, is the western name for the style of male attire known in China as the Zhongshan suit (Template:Zh-tsp, or Template:Zh-cp); named after Sun Zhongshan (Sun Yat-sen) who introduced it shortly after the founding of the Republic of China as a form of national dress.
The suit was developed by Sun Zhongshan, and popularized by Mao Zedong, who would often wear it in public. Can we somehow change the mass of pinyin in the lead paragraph to allow for a more clear-flowing intro sentence without that stuff crammed in there, important though it is? Mao suit style of attire originally known in China as the Zhongshan suit after the republican leader Sun Yat-sen (Sun Zhongshan), later as the Mao suit (after Mao Zedong) Upload media The Sun Yat-sen suit Sun Yat-sen (Sun Zhongshan) (1866-1925), the Provisional President of the new Chinese Republic proclaimed in 1911, is credited with the modernisation of Chinese men's dress.It is said that he instructed Huang Longsheng, a Western-style tailor from Zhejiang Province, to design a suit based on one commonly worn by Chinese men in Japan and south-east Asia. One said it was based on a dress popular in Guangdong. Despite its modern-day name, the roots of the Mao suit can be traced back to Sun Yat-sen and the Nationalist government. Then it stops short on further tracing the origin. Chairman Mao himself almost never wore hats with the suit, except when it's the military green version of the The article mentions North Korea as wearing the suit but are there differences? How/when was this style brought to Japan in the first place? When Xi attended a dinner last year hosted by the Dutch royal family, however, he wore an elegant dark blue Mao suit, causing the state-run China Daily to gush: “Zhongshan suits make comeback”. Mao encouraged Chinese citizens to wear the suit. For example, Zhadov's portrait: The modern Chinese tunic suit is a style of male attire originally known in China as the Zhongshan suit (simplified Chinese: 中山装; traditional Chinese: 中山裝; pinyin: Zhōngshān zhuāng) after the republican leader Sun Yat-sen (Sun Zhongshan). And still another says Sun Yat-sen took a Japanese military uniform to some tailor as a model. A "suit" surely does not include accessories like hats and shoes. When the Republic was founded in 1912, the style of dress worn in China was based on Incorporating elements of German military dress including a turndown collar and four symmetrically placed pockets and based on a form of In the 1920s and 1930s, civil servants of the Chinese government were required to wear the The Zhongshan/Mao suit remained the standard formal dress for the first and second generation of PRC leaders such as Today among the Chinese people, the suit has been entirely abandoned by the younger generation in urban areas, but is still regarded as formal attire by many old people.