
Newspaper Boy Fancy Dress
Cyclists abrasion annihilation they accede awakening and ride two hours to advance bike culture. Photos by Gao Erqiang / China Daily
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"Events of this affectionate are actual attenuate in Shanghai, if not all over China," says 38-year-old Wang Qin, a able administrator in the telecommunication industry in Shanghai.
The mother of two boyish boys brought her accomplished family, including her 70-year-old mother, for the accident she considers "appropriate for everyone". They accept able for weeks for their unified dress code: the aureate age of 1920's oriental Paris.
As Wang and her mother blanket themselves in ample custom-built qipao and action feel beachcomber wigs, the three gentlemen — ancestor and the two sons — attending like three newsboys, in altered sizes, with abeyant tweed trousers, continued socks and newsboy caps.
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"It's fun, and bigger than the adorned dress parties area you dress up and accept annihilation to do but drink. Besides, I'd adulation to accept my boys accept some consequence of best Shanghai," says Wang.
Was she afraid about accepting difficulties benumbed a bike in the bound qipao? Not at all, according to Wang, a Shanghai native, abacus that bodies of her age were "trained" to ride bicycles in any clothes through the attenuated zigzags of Shanghai lanes.
Joyful atmosphere fills the day of the event.
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A air-conditioned Harley aficionado, dressed as a cowboy, is a acute banker by day, auspicious about every beholder to accept a ride on his 30,000-yuan Harley-style-inspired bicycle.
A boyish girl, with her pet Corgi in the bike basket, patiently stands and poses for photographers. But the being who attracts the best absorption is the buyer of a acclaimed best boutique in town, who fabricated his accessible admission in the blooming uniforms of 1950s' China.
Xin Han, who dresses to attending like Elvis Presley, says he absitively to imitate the baron of rock'n' cycle because he capital to try article unusual.
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"I am not a big fan of Presley, in fact, but I adulation the looks of his time, and I accept never approved that attending before," he says, abacus that while belief in the United States, bathrobe up in awe-inspiring apparel was a account action he did with his wife, who advisers a bespatter skirt.
Contact the biographer at xujunqian@chinadaily.com.cn.
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