Nanking Upholds Blue Silk Gown and Black Jacket
SHANGHAI — Old-fashioned Chinese silk merehants and others have drawn a breath of relief on assurance from the Ministry of Interior that the blue silk gown and blaek ''makua77 or jacket will continue to be recognized as semiofficial Chinese equivalent of the foreign style dinner-coat. The blue gown-black jacket combination is very flexible in its employment, and may be used during business hours without implication of any official occasion. Old-time scholars wear such garb at all times. Hearing. that the government was about to ban it for semi-ofiieial occasions, the silk merehants' guild had asked an official ruling .in its favour which the government granted.
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 142, 3 July 1937, Page 18
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