People Are Clothes and Horses Are Saddles
by Wang Shaohua
About This Novel
This book is based on a time-honored cloth shop named Yifufenzhuang in the ancient city of Xiangfu. It follows the five popular clothing styles of cheongsam, Bragi, military uniform, suit and denim in different periods as clues to advance the story. It shows their suffering, struggle, perseverance and liberation through the changes in fate of three generations of women in the Yue Manxiang family, the female shopkeeper of Yifufen, who run the cloth shop. The book uses clothing, a symbol like a flag of the era, to express the relationship between clothing and the progress of the times, triggering thoughts about the soul that has endured for thousands of years under the beautiful clothes. Over thousands of years in China, the changes in women's clothing can see the deep imprint that the times have left on them.
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