For the last few weeks I have been sharing a weekly vintage piece from our home for the Treasure of the Week series, and also writing a separate qipao (cheongsam)-related post. But it’s been a really busy week of moving and getting things installed in our new apartment, so this week I am cheating a little bit and combining the…
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I recently bid farewell to several of my favourite summer qipaos, and as the temperature suddenly plummeted over the last two days, I thought it then very appropriate to say a big hello and welcome to a warm winter qipao (cheongsam) this week. Most people think of qipao as a warm-weather type of clothing. After all, most qipaos that we…
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I’ve shared previously about my vintage Shanghainese watches, a pair of charming but rather high maintenance accessories which need to be wound up every day. Today, I am going to write about an even more charming (at least to me), but equally as demanding time-keeping device: my grandfather’s vintage 60s alarm clock. The 6:30am alarm Before the age of 10,…
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When I posted about my other wedding qipao (a red and white silk qipao that I wore to our pre-wedding traditional outdoor banquet), I was actually dying to post about this one. This was my reception dress for the wedding day itself, a mint green and magenta modern wedding qipao (cheongsam in Cantonese) that I had tailor made here in…
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I had no idea of the age of these antique sunglasses until I sat down to write this post. Since from vintage photos I knew that plastic frames were already commonplace by the 50s and 60s, I figured maybe early 1900s was a good bet. But five minutes into my googling, I realized that they were possibly much older. Most…
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