【Festive Offer】2025 Summer Issue

# Festive Special Packaging 【Hong Kong Region Exclusive】 **For delivery before Christmas, please complete your online order by December 19th at the latest.** -- About this issue: We are what we wear?! From garments to fashion, from traditional Chinese attire to Western suits, from bespoke tailoring to ready-to-wear, what cultural characteristics does clothing embody in Hong Kong, and what historical changes does it record? What we wear, and what "Hong Kong people" wear, who decides? How are choices made? Does everyone have the condition or awareness to make autonomous choices? When putting on this or that item, which one is truly me? Or perhaps, which one do I wish to be? Let’s Decode the Hong Kong Dress Together! Highlights of this issue: REvisit// Dressing the Era and Its People Since the mid-19th century, Hong Kong has attracted people from all over the world seeking business opportunities. Beyond Westerners, individuals from various regions and social strata of China also settled here. These immigrants brought capital and labor, and infused a vibrant and diverse clothing culture. REprint// Style Guide: A Paper Fashion Guide Newspapers and magazines in Shanghai before the war and Hong Kong after the war largely served as "fashion guides." They showcased contemporary popular clothing through illustrations and photography, later evolving to include serialized comics, becoming the ultimate guide for young girls to shape their attire and image. REvive// The Cheongsam Reimagined Before the 1970s and 80s, the cheongsam was everyday wear for Hong Kong women and even became a classic icon of Eastern feminine beauty in the eyes of Westerners. After the war, a group of tailors from Shanghai continued the cheongsam craft here, further developing a fusion of Eastern and Western tailoring techniques into fashionable styles. REmade// The Golden Age of Hong Kong Western Suits The "Red Gang" tailors from Shanghai elevated the standard of local Western suit tailoring. After the 1960s and 70s, tourists and businessmen visiting Hong Kong, as well as soldiers arriving with warships, would have bespoke, affordable, and quickly made Hong Kong-style Western suits from Western clothing stores as travel "souvenirs." REform// Even School Uniforms Are Fashionable School uniforms are the single type of clothing most people wear for the longest period in their lives. Hong Kong school uniforms exhibit remarkable diversity in styles, reflecting changes in population and the education system over more than a century. As school uniforms, traditionally rooted in practicality, are now also catching up with fashion trends, what other changes lie behind these style updates? REfashion// Sham Shui Po SSP Style Why was Sham Shui Po once the heart of Hong Kong's garment industry? What traces related to ready-to-wear and fashion can still be found in Sham Shui Po today? Could Sham Shui Po transform into a fashion-centric Design Hub in the future, driving the regeneration of the old district? REcreate// A New World of Knitwear Knitwear was once a major category of Hong Kong's exported garments. While most local manufacturers moved their production overseas after the 1980s, the Lo's Knitwear Studio, established in 2022, extends knitting craftsmanship into design and artistic creation, collaborating with various sectors to promote local Hong Kong culture. REconnect// People and Clothes – The Tailor of Time From Fashion Design to Fashion Clinic, having navigated different stages of the fashion journey, designer Toby Crispy Lin Wai-yin, as a "Tailor of Time," attempts to guide people back to a slower pace, using every stitch to reweave the relationships between people, and between people and the community. Other exciting content: REcover// Catwalk on the streets After the war, Hong Kong became an Asian base for many foreign journalists. They captured the bustling scenes of people in various districts and alleyways with their lenses, resembling a real-life fashion show, showcasing the daily lives caught between Eastern and Western cultures and the transition between old and new eras. REmember// Faded Splendor, Handmade Moments Once upon a time, fabric shops, cheongsam stores, or Western clothing shops were "always just around the corner." Now, they are increasingly rare. While 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// Making Clothes, Making Oneself In the 1960s, many Hong Kong women entered the manufacturing industry. After achieving economic independence, how did they express themselves? For many young women at the time, making clothes not only allowed them to dress as they pleased but also represented a kind of independent happiness. REthink// Handmade in HK: Embroidering Hong Kong Techniques like drawn thread work, embroidery, and beading were once significant industries in Hong Kong, with large exports to foreign countries. Behind these ornate garments lie histories, characteristics, and changes in these crafts that are deeply intertwined with Hong Kong society. REmode// Fashion Trends From the 1960s, 70s, 80s, 90s, to the 2000s, Hong Kong people had their own popular fashion styles for each era. Regardless of the stylistic differences, they were all influenced by social and economic transformations and reflected in the emerging media and publications of the time. REimagine// The Costume Designer's Wardrobe Whether it's beautiful dresses or worn-out rags, costume designers and tailors play a crucial role in creating the vibrant world of clothing in films. In the fast-paced Hong Kong film industry, how do costume designers establish their own aesthetics and collaborate seamlessly with tailors? (Note: "13点" comic © 13 Points Limited. All rights reserved.) ISBN: 978-988-74818-7-4 Price: HK$180 Printed and Produced in: Hong Kong Publication Date: Late June 2025 Online Store Summer Issue Exclusive Offer For orders placed through the online store, you will receive: 【This is Hong Kong X Anothermountainman X Lo's Knitwear Studio】 "The Present (Past/Future)" Bookmark. **Limited quantity, available on a first-come, first-served basis while stocks last.** The 2025 Summer issue of "This is Hong Kong," themed "Hong Kong Wearables," invites Anothermountainman and Lo's Knitwear Studio to combine design creativity with half a century of knitting craftsmanship to weave the "The Present (Past/Future)" bookmark. The front represents the future, and the back represents the past. Let the warmth of paper and the texture of knitting accompany your reading of present-day Hong Kong.