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Excerpt from Illustrated Catalogue of the Chinese Collection of Exhibits for the International Health Exhibition, London, 1884 Instead of the long robes of the Manchus, Chinese ladies wear a tunic or pelisse reaching nearly to the knees, with broad sleeves, and a skirt divided into four parts closely plaited in such a manner that the plaits have the same appearance when viewed from either side. Over the division between each two parts, hangs a broad piece of embroidered silk or satin, of the same colour as the rest of the skirt, with a black satin border, at the corners of which are. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.