Big debate currently going on about appropriateness of wearing a cheongsam dress to the prom. Here is a short film about the inspiring fashion pioneer Brenda Lo, who designed stunning cheongam/qipao dresses for beauty pageants in the 1950s and 1960s. Brenda emigrated from Shanghai, first to Honolulu and then San Francisco, where she still lives. You can see more of her work here. I can't believe Brenda isn't famous.