Open the Chinese local clothing dictionary, you will not find this noun “evening wear" or "evening dress". Started from the late Ming and early Qing Dynasty, when the women attended the celebration or social communicative activities, they were used to wearing clothing rich oriental charm "cheongsam" which was evolved from Mongolian clothing. It has been widely used as decent dress for Chinese women to wear sometimes in social activities, and it’s still enduring. But, how do those floor length evening dresses come from?
Long formal evening dresses began in sixteenth Century, when it was the proprietary clothing for the European royal ladies, which was the symbol of Supreme power. So, besides the royal women with royal blood flowing in, the other civilian shall have not right to keep and wear that. On these hot pink bridesmaid dresses, which were modified to very exaggerated and grand with a lot of cutting stuffing cloth, reveals master luxury and elegance. The design of upper thoracic partly hidden and partly visible and cutting style carving out body original lines have shown that meaning of "sex" more prominent and charming and vividly express the noble and beauty of the Royal lady. Latter, the clothing culture was loved and accepted and inheritance by the Royal Women in America.
With the development of social history, the Royal Women's clothing——long formal evening dresses,had gradually into the upper class group becoming a the upper society ladies daily social activities etiquette special clothing. Because most of the social activities began in the evening, where the gentleman and lady would gather together, to display their power, wealth and status at this time, ladies would put on their highly valued and extravagant clothing. This evening social occasion dress form a unique function and series, that is how the noun “evening dress” emerged, English dictionary added: Evening Dress (meaning: evening ceremonial clothing, also known as the evening dress, evening wear).
Along with the opening up of people's thinking and the progress of civilization in our country, the excellent western culture is compatibly accepted by the Chinese, clothing culture also changed fundamentally. Known as the sexy, exposure, exaggerated long formal evening dresses had gradually been accepted and compatible to daily life by Chinese women. Now, Chinese fashion designers not only can design royal blue bridesmaid dresses in line with European and American culture, but also can make good in European and American style with oriental verve and national cultural elements and design evening dress more suitable for oriental women.