"The women in Hunan wear jackets and trousers. Sleeves, collars and trouser cuffs are colorfully trimmed. But the women in Guangxi wear jackets tied with belt, and many-hued embroidered apron, and a pleated skirt."
It sounds like some old spinster with a pleated skirt and frilly blouse.
School-day nostalgia is now feeding into London's fashion stores where pleated skirts and tunics are an unexpected hit.
Shobha was in her school uniform, a dark pleated skirt with a tucked-in white blouse, the first time I met her.
But the women in Guangxi wear jackets tied with belt, and many-hued embroidered apron, and a pleated skirt.
Kate, 32, has worn the designer pleated skirt dress on previous occasions, most famously on the royal barge during the Diamond Jubilee river pageant of 2012.
She wore a cotton shirt over a wide box pleated skirt.
cluster pleated skirt