Young Asian Chinese Female Dress Traditional Stock Photography

Young Asian Chinese female dress traditional cheongsam at Chinese New Year, isolated on white background. The cheongsam is a body-hugging one-piece Chinese dress for women; the male version is the changshan. It is known in Mandarin Chinese as the qipao (chipao), and is also known in English as a mandarin gown. The stylish and often tight-fitting cheongsam or qipao (chipao) that is best known today was created in the 1920s in Shanghai and made fashionable by socialites and upper class women.