This is in Shanghai in 2009, where designer clothes, shoes and bags are the rage. Every woman in China metropolis loves to look like a model from a glossy magazine, head to toe in designer garb.
The mother and child duo was totally contrasting from everyone around them. The child was tied to her waist with a hand woven cloth (very traditional to the way 'primitive' tribes and villagers carry there child around). She briefly stopped in front of this man made fountain, had a conversation with her child and then moved on....
Fisherman's market China, Beijing, 2009
The traditional textile in China is unlike what the world image of it is today. Just type " Indigo dyeing in China" on Google. You will see a whole different china than just the land of population, mass production and designer fakes. :)
qípáo (pronounced as ch'i-p'ao) .
In English it is referred to the traditional Mandarin Gown. The gown is stylish and tight fitting. According to popular belief this is the traditional dress of Chinese women, but infact it was made popular in the 1920's by the socialites and upper class women in Shanghai.
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