In April 1929, the Mao suit was officially announced as a legal uniform by the National Government. After the 1950s, the Mao suit became the official clothing for everyone from national leaders to ordinary people. After the 1980s, the Mao suit was gradually forgotten among the people, but national leaders were still accustomed to wearing the Mao suit when attending major events. On February 29, 2016, the Central Committee of the Kuomintang submitted a proposal to the fourth session of the 12th National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, recommending that the Mao suit be used as the official national dress.
Origin
There are several theories about the origin of the Mao suit: One theory is that Sun Yat-sen commissioned overseas Chinese Zhang Fangcheng to design a sketch of the Mao suit during his activities in Japan. After returning to Shanghai, he was named Rongchang in 1916. Xiang tailor Wang Caiyun produced according to the drawings. The 17th page of "Shenbao" on April 20, 1927 contained a soft advertisement "The Great Sales of Mao Suit": "Rong Changxiang, opposite the New World on Nanjing Road, is the first manufacturer of Mao suit. His craftsmanship is exquisite and his style is extremely accurate. Now it is in use The trend of the trend, for the sake of popularization...".
Another branch of this theory says that in 1919, when Mr. Sun Yat-sen was living in Shanghai, he once took a worn Japanese army uniform to Henry Clothing Store and asked a tailor to change it into " "Civil clothes", after changing to "civilian clothes" still looks a bit like a British military uniform. But among casual clothes, it is neither a "Tang suit" nor a "suit", so the clerk named it Mao suit. At that time, the Chinese tunic suit had a seam on the back, a belt at the middle of the back, 9 buttons on the front placket, and "fat pleats" on the upper and lower pockets