0 a straight, tight silk dress with a high neck and a slit (= cut) in the side of the skirt, in a style that became popular in China, especially Shanghai:
There was an elderly white-haired Chinese lady in a modest blue cheongsam.
Tan has a personal collection of vintage cheongsams and robes assembled over years of scouring flea markets.
Galliano's first Dior collection featured cheongsam, as did Tom Ford's last YSL collection.
Celebrities in Shanghai made these tight-fitting cheongsam popular.
I bought lovely new dresses, including a Taiwanese silk cheongsam with hand embroidery.
There were some interesting cigarette advertisements from the 1930s, where you see the traditional cheongsam being Westernized.
