Mention Tian Atong this name, in Chinese dress bound almost unmanned not dawn. He is Mao Zedong, Zhou En comes, the presiding clothing division of the republican leader such as Deng Xiaoping. By him of initiate " wool type Chinese tunic suit " , lie fallow in Chinese official business on the history of outfit, have the sense of milepost type. So, the Nanhai in how be being walked into is Tian Atong? In the sartorial career of half many century, what does he have again hard the memory of dismiss from one's mind?
Mao Zedong -- " range estimation " cut the garment into parts
1925, tian Atong is born in creek of Jiangsu Changshu sanded home family of a farmer. , come to to Shanghai act according to via kin introduction tailor learns over there the master that spend record. After 3 years, tian Atong applies for Shanghai Nanjing east road the clothing company of an England foreign firm works. Here, he makes Western-style clothes not only, do leather outfit, do a cheongsam, still do the fair maiden outfit of all sorts of fashionable forward position. With bright and assiduous, tian Atong becomes the sartorial past master of the tip on Shanghai beach very quickly. Before long, he had himself on road of Nanjing of Shanghai famous business street " store of Tian Atong clothing " . After Shanghai is liberated, tian Atong suffers hire the senior technician that becomes company of a clothing of Shanghai.
Say, tian Atong is chosen to enter in Nanhai makes clothing for national leader, still have a paragraph of little-known story.
A day of 1956, tian Atong receives an announcement, let him attend the meeting to Shanghai light industry bureau. The conference attends those who spend day of the aid that fight the United States to retire by the soldier is chaired, those who attend the meeting is the ace of bound of the dress on Shanghai. Making what Tian Atong feels strange is, meeting topic for discussion has only: Retire for this the soldier does a Chinese tunic suit.
Actually, this retires the soldier is upper group comes what invite applications for a job does the tailor of dress for central leader. Make the clothing for him, it is a special exam actually. Tian Atong notices this retires military shoulder and smooth ordinary person are different, it is the cause that has sufferred an injury about, want to make formfitting jacket have some of difficulty really. After a few days, when the expert undertakes appraise through comparison to the work that hand in, did not expend what setbacks, singled out. Ravel seam the little list on the dress, writing clearly above " Tian Atong " 3 words. It is Tian Atong probably this clothing that make is too formfitting really, this retires the soldier is flat entrust Tian Atong to choose 11 clothing division to enter capital in Shanghai, those who enter what hold water technically to make official business and life clothing for national leader is red fashionable dress company. Tian Atong began to be as long as from this the career that half many century makes clothing for national leader.
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