Lined camel-coloured mid-sleeved silk cheongsam with horizontal stripes

Lined camel-coloured mid-sleeved silk cheongsam with horizontal stripes
1930s
Hong Kong Museum of History collection
This cheongsam is made of very soft and lightweight silk woven with fine black horizontal stripes irregularly punctuated with black dots. It is furnished with 14 pairs of frog closures and double bindings in a style that the tailors called a 'tramway'.