During an age when men worked outside and women stayed in the home, a woman wearing a ch'i- p'ao possessed a certain gracefulness sitting in a pedicab or ricksha. But a modern working woman whowears a ch'i-p'ao while riding a crowded bus or running across the street is not a pretty sight.
在男主外、女主內的時代，女性穿著旗袍坐坐三輪車、黃包車，甚能表現優雅的氣質，而今女性上班族如果要穿旗袍擠公車、快步或奔跑過馬路，那就不甚美觀了。