Women wore an unlined garment outside the cotton coat to prevent the coat from getting dirty and to avoid the frequent washing while maintaining the progressive image. In 1950s, those women who still had not walked out of home and started to work in the society were generally called housewife. These women didn't have strong consciousness of "women liberation," so over-clothes they wore were mostly in duijin style with knot buttons and dajin style for middle aged and
old women. Most of the governmental department working staff, female workers and students wore Lenin dress as over-clothes. In the later years of 1960s, along with the deterioration of Sino-Soviet Union relationship, women no longer wore Lenin dress, but wore "welcoming guest dress," This dress was similar to men's Sun Yat-sen's uniform with a turn-down collar and five buttons except some changes in collar and pocket design. This so called "welcoming guest dress" was very common in the decade between middle 1960s and middle 1970s. This dress was gradually abandoned when China adopted Reform and Open Door policy, but it was still very common among middle aged and old women until the middle and later part of 1990s.
No matter how style changed, those over clothes worn outside the flower patterned cotton coat were mostly solid color blue and grey, and some were brown and black. Women by nature love beautiful things, and would not bear wearing dark color dress for long period of time. So sometimes they would intentionally make the flower patterned cotton coat longer than the over clothes, and in this way, color and design of the cotton coat would be exposed in collar, sleeve and the lower hem part. Even though it was easy to dirty the cotton coat in this way, this dressing way still became a fashion followed by many women.
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