As half a million Chinese streamed past the Gate of Heavenly Peace in Peking's May Day parade, a stiff breeze caught thousands of colored banners and whipped them through the air. It was a fine day for the public reappearance of one of the revolution's most lamented victims: the skirt. For the first time, women marchers stepped along smartly in bright spring frocks and blouses instead of the sexless jackets and pants of recent years.
When the Communists took over China in 1949. Red leaders continued to wear their "liberation uniform"dark trousers and...
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