Title
Portrait of a Chinese girl wearing a Western-style dress
Year/Period
1945-1946
Region
Singapore or Malaysia
Object Type
Material
Dimension
Image size: 8.2 x 6.1 cm
Accession No.
2001-00116
Collection of
Credit Line
Gift of Mr Harold Gresly-Grey
As Singapore women became more cosmopolitan and were exposed to Western ideas, they started to look to the West and other parts of Asia (Hong Kong, Shanghai and Tokyo) for fashion inspiration. This eventually resulted in the adoption of such Western-style dresses.
