Hong Kong Tailors In 1872 the newspaper Shenbao was founded in Shanghai, and in 1884 it added an eight-page weekly pictorial supplement. Influenced by the pictorial press then popular in Europe, it depicted both news and human interest stories, both Chinese and foreign. This scene shows a tailor shop in Hong Kong where Chinese tailors use sewing machines and make women’s clothes in current Western styles. To Chinese readers, men making women’s clothes and placing them on bamboo forms would have seemed as peculiar as the style of the dresses. (From Dianshizhai huabao, a Shanghai picture magazine, 1885 or later/Visual Connection Archive)