‘It’s a test of courage wearing a hot-pink cheongsam’: How I learned to wear my grandma’s heirlooms

My grandma is 89, her clothes are from 1960s Hong Kong, and now they’re mine. How can I give them another life and wear them with pride? An explosion of fabric sits at my feet. Heavy coats sit in stacked piles that threaten to topple over, and silk cheongsams lie unzipped on the bed. Despite the chaos, organising my 89-year-old grandma’s clothes is a reminder that her life has been as vivid as the clothes that surround me. She’s moving into a retirement village and I am luckily on the receiving end of her closet clean-out. My grandmother was a sartorially savvy woman and the craftsmanship of the clothes she has collected and worn over the years is unlike anything I’ve seen. Continue reading...

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