[BCMA] Modernize Tailors: 100 Years of Dressing the Modern Man

[Moderated BCMA subscriber listserv.]

Modernize Tailors: 100 Years of Dressing the Modern Man

 

Exhibition Viewing: 

November 1 -November 30, 2013


Opening: Sunday, November 3, 2013 from 1:30-3:30pm

Hall of One Hundred Rivers at the Dr. Sun Yat-Sen Classical Chinese Garden 

 

For the first time, one of the oldest existing family businesses in
Chinatown is made accessible for public viewing with an expert exhibition of
changes in fashion over the past century. 

 

Father, Wong Kung Lai, started Modernize back in 1913. Passing down his
skill and knowledge to his 2 eldest sons, Bill and Jack, they then ran the
business for the past 65 years. 

 

In the postwar boom era, The Modernize Tailors Wong Family were the largest
tailor shop in Vancouver, serving the local community, as well as suiting up
celebrities like Sean Connery, and Gordon Lightfoot.

 

Sunday, November, 3rd join us for the Opening Reception from 1:30 to 3:30
P.M.

Take this rare opportunity to meet and "talk to the tailor". 
Bill, now 91, will be reading excerpts from his journal written when he was
14 about the daily life in a Chinese Village. The passages refer in part to
the time Bill and Jack went with their father back to their ancestral
village to live and go to school for a year in 1936. 

 

Come experience a century of fashion and expertise at The Modernize Tailors
exhibit 100 Years of Dressing the Modern Man.

 

 

For more information:



Shayla Perreault

operations at vancouverchinesegarden.com

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