{"id":2113,"date":"2013-02-22T17:16:10","date_gmt":"2013-02-22T09:16:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dimsumdolly.com\/?p=2113"},"modified":"2013-02-22T17:16:10","modified_gmt":"2013-02-22T09:16:10","slug":"the-wearing-of-a-cheongsam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dimsumdolly.net\/?p=2113","title":{"rendered":"The Wearing of a Cheongsam"},"content":{"rendered":"

I don’t know how Maggie Cheung breathed in those body-hugging and gorgeous cheongsams of hers in In the Mood for Love<\/em>. The gold coloured\u00a0cheongsam that I bought as my new clothes for Chinese New Year made me realise that the traditional Chinese garment is one difficult piece of clothing to wear.<\/p>\n

First, I have to be conscious about tucking in my (big)\u00a0tummy in all day, else I look like I have a baby bump. I should buy a corset or some tummy tucker. Second, because the cheongsam skims the body, it makes big movements difficult. For example, I can’t bend down fast to pick up something I’ve dropped on the floor. Instead, I have to bend down my whole body slowly in a squatting motion.<\/p>\n

Despite its restrictions, I have to say there’s nothing quite like the cheongsam for\u00a0a Chinese woman to make a fashion statement. I love how\u00a0the dress’ cut accentuates the curves in a woman as well as\u00a0how the flower and other ausipicious Oriental motifs on the fabric bring out a Chinese woman’s beauty. For someone like me who has a more\u00a0curvy figure,\u00a0the cheongsam is perfect\u00a0for upping the sexy and feminine quotient.<\/p>\n

I think\u00a0I’ll look into including\u00a0more\u00a0cheongsams in my wardrobe henceforth. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I don’t know how Maggie Cheung breathed in those body-hugging and gorgeous cheongsams of hers in In the Mood for Love. The gold coloured\u00a0cheongsam that I bought as my new clothes for Chinese New Year made me realise that the … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[83],"class_list":["post-2113","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-musings-mullings","tag-cheongsam"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dimsumdolly.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2113","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dimsumdolly.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dimsumdolly.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dimsumdolly.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dimsumdolly.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2113"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.dimsumdolly.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2113\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2116,"href":"https:\/\/www.dimsumdolly.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2113\/revisions\/2116"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dimsumdolly.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2113"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dimsumdolly.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2113"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dimsumdolly.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2113"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}