【This is Hong Kong】Summer 2025 issue

Introduction of this issue: We are what we wear? ! From clothes to fashion, from Chinese clothes to suits, from tailor-made to ready-made clothes, In Hong Kong, what kind of cultural characteristics does clothing reflect, and what historical changes does it record? Who decides what we wear, and what "Hong Kong people" wear? How do we choose? Does everyone have the conditions or awareness to make independent choices? When I put on this or that piece, which one is me? Or, I hope, which one am I? Let's Decode the Hong Kong Dress Together! This issue's highlights: REvisit// Wearing the era and group portraits Since the mid-19th century, Hong Kong has attracted people from all over the world to come here in search of business opportunities. In addition to Westerners, people from all over China and different social classes have also settled here. The immigrant population brought capital and labor, and also injected a colorful and diverse clothing culture. REprint// Style Guide The large number of newspapers and magazines that emerged in pre-war Shanghai and post-war Hong Kong all served as "fashion guides" to varying degrees, using paintings and photography to showcase the popular clothing of the day. Later, serialized comics appeared, becoming a bible for young girls to shape their clothing and image. REvive// Reinvention of the long gown Before the 1970s and 1980s, cheongsam was the daily attire of Hong Kong women, and even became a classic icon of oriental feminine beauty in the eyes of Westerners. After the war, a group of tailors from Shanghai came to Hong Kong, continuing the cheongsam craft and developing a three-dimensional tailoring fashion that combined Chinese and Western styles. REmade// Hong Kong-style suits The Shanghai Red Gang tailors raised the standard of local western-style tailoring skills. After the 1960s and 1970s, tourists or businessmen who came to Hong Kong, as well as soldiers who came with warships, would go to tailor shops to have cheap, high-quality, and fast-delivery Hong Kong-style suits tailored for them as travel "souvenirs". REform// School uniforms are also fashionable School uniforms are the same clothes that many people wear for the longest time in their lives. The styles of school uniforms in Hong Kong are extremely diverse, reflecting the changes in population and school system over the past 100 years. While school uniforms have always been based on tradition and practicality, they have also had to catch up with fashion in recent years. What else has changed behind the change of style? REfashion// Sham Shui Po SSP Style Why did Sham Shui Po become the center of Hong Kong's garment industry in the past? What traces of garments and fashion can still be found in Sham Shui Po today? In the future, will Sham Shui Po become a fashion-centered Design Hub, driving the transformation of the old district? REcreate// Knitting a new world Knitwear was once a major category of garment exports in Hong Kong. After the 1980s, most local manufacturers moved their processes abroad. However, the Luo's Knitwear Studio, established in 2022, has extended knitwear craftsmanship to design and artistic creation, and collaborated with different sectors to promote local culture in Hong Kong. REconnect// People and Clothes - Tailors of Time From Fashion Design to Fashion Clinic, having gone through different stages on the fashion road, designer Toby Crispy Lin, as a "time tailor", tries to slow people down and reweave the relationships between people and between people and the community with every stitch. Other highlights: REcover// Catwalk on the streets After the war, Hong Kong began to become the Asian base for many foreign journalists. They used their cameras to capture the comings and goings of people in the streets and alleys of various districts at that time, which was like a real-life fashion show, showing the people's livelihood at the turn of the old and new eras, sandwiched between Chinese and Western cultures. REmember// Time is gone, create it with your own hands Once upon a time, there was only one cloth shop, gown shop or suit shop nearby, but now it is rare to find them. Although these tailor-made clothes cannot keep up with the speed of fast fashion, they record the collective taste of Hong Kong people in a certain era. REflect// Make clothes, be yourself In the 1960s, many Hong Kong women began to engage in manufacturing. After becoming economically independent, how did they express themselves? For many women at that time, making clothes not only allowed them to dress as they pleased, but also represented a kind of independent happiness. REthink// Handmade in HK Drawnwork, embroidery, beading, etc. were once very important industries in Hong Kong, and were exported in large quantities to foreign countries. Behind the gorgeous clothes, the history, characteristics and changes of these crafts are closely related to Hong Kong society. REmode// Fashion Trends From the 60s, 70s, 80s, 90s to the millennium, Hong Kong people of each generation have their own fashion styles. No matter how different the styles are, they are all influenced by social and economic transformations and reflected in the emerging media and publications at the time. REimagine // Wardrobe by Clothing Guide Whether it is beautiful clothes or tattered clothes, to create the colorful clothing world in the movie, costume directors and tailors play an important role. In the Hong Kong film industry that operates at a very fast pace, how can costume directors establish their own aesthetics and work seamlessly with tailors? (Note: "13 o'clock" comics © 13 o'clock Co., Ltd. All rights reserved) ISBN：978-988-74818-7-4 Price: HK$180 Printing location: Hong Kong Publication date: late June Exclusive treatment for the online store's summer issue Order through the online store and receive: [This is Hong Kong x Another Mountain Man x Luo's Knitting Studio] Current (past/future) Bookmark 1**Limited quantity, first come first served, while stocks last** The 2025 Summer Issue of "Hong Kong Wearables" is themed "Hong Kong Wearables". We invited anothermountainman and Luo's Knitting Studio to combine design creativity with half a century of knitting craftsmanship to weave the present (past/future) bookmarks. The future is ahead, the past is behind, let the warmth of the paper, The feel of knitting, accompany you to read, Hong Kong now.