For such an important occasion, some womenwent to the trouble of making a ch'i-p'ao for themselves while others would have mama's old onealtered. Yet these kinds of traditions are declining. Maybe wearing a ch'i-p'ao is already no longer a symbol of adulthood.
為了迎接這個重大日子的來臨，有人會慎重其事去訂做一件，有人則把媽媽的舊旗袍拿出來改，而今這種傳統已漸式微；或許穿旗袍已不是長大成人的象徵。