From Thanh Nien News
Vietnam’s first ao dai (women’s traditional tunic) museum will open in November in Sai Gon’s District 9.
Part of designer Si Hoang’s collection of ao dai. Photo from Thanh Nien News.
The private museum, belonging to noted ao dai designer Si Hoang and located in his suburban garden house, is aimed at domestic and foreign tourists and students keen to learn about Vietnamese dress culture.
It will feature 500 dresses dating back to 1930.
They include one donated by Ton Nu Thi Ninh, who is former ambassador of Vietnam to the EU and former vice-chair of the parliamentary Foreign Affairs Committee.
The dress was wore by Ninh, her mother-in-law and her daughter-in-law.
The collection also includes sets of ao dai owned by Nguyen Thi Dinh, Vietnam’s first female major general to serve in the Vietnam People’s Army, former deputy president Nguyen Thi Binh, and famous senior artist cai luong Kim Cuong and Bay Nam.
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