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by Hoang Huong and Le Phuong

HO CHI MINH CITY Chris Wondolowski USA Jersey , March 7 (Xinhua) -- The Dam Sen (Lotus Lake) Culture-Tourism Complex in Vietnam's southern Ho Chi Minh City on Saturday, unlike other weekends, was overcrowded with visitors who were not only tourists, but many others coming to attend the Ao Dai Festival here to highlight the Vietnamese women's feminine beauty.

Themed "Ho Chi Minh City - A City of Ao Dai", the two-day annual event and the second of this kind ever held in the city, attracted the country's well-known makers and designers involving in making the traditional long gown called Ao Dai in Vietnamese, such as Sy Hoang, Viet Hung, Minh Chau and Tuan Hai.

Right in the morning of the opening day Chris Pontius USA Jersey , an Ao Dai show was held, with groups of models, office women, school teachers and students, each group wearing charming and beautifully-designed Ao Dai to show off their unique beauty. Music and songs accompanied their show, making it more attractive to spectators.

The Ao Dai is a Vietnamese national costume, now most commonly worn by women. In its current form, it is a tight-fitting silk tunic worn over pants. Ao classifies the item as a piece of clothing on the upper part of the body, and Dai means "long".

The word "Ao Dai" was said to be originally applied to the outfit worn at the court of the Nguyen Lords at Vietnam's imperial city of Hue in the 18th century. This outfit evolved into a five- paneled aristocratic gown worn in the 19th and early 20th centuries. Inspired by Paris fashions Blank USA Jersey , local artists associated with the Hanoi University re-designed the gown into a modern dress in the 1920s and 1930s.

The updated look was promoted by the artists as a national costume for the modern era. In the 1950s, Saigon (present-day Ho Chi Minh City) designers tightened the fit to produce the version worn by Vietnamese women today.