In 1979, educated youth Lin Xiaoyan fell into employment difficulties after returning to the city. With the sewing skills she learned in the countryside, she ventured into setting up a clothing stall and designed fashionable styles such as bell-bottom pants and dresses. From evading urban management to founding the "Yan Gui Lai" clothing brand, she worked step by step in the cracks between policy and market, and eventually became the "clothing queen" leading local fashion, writing the entrepreneurial legend of women in the 1980s.
