"Right now it's still flourishing," says Tsai Meng-hsia, a designer specializing in modified ch'i-p'ao products. Tsai recently visited a clothing factory in mainland China, and discovered that there were still a great many orders from West German and other European clients for washed silk jackets and other items, and estimates that it can remain dominant for at least another year.
「今年還是很盛」，以改良式旗袍為主力產品的設計師蔡孟夏最近參觀大陸成衣廠，發現西德等歐洲國家下訂單購水洗絲雪衣、夾克的仍很多，預測它至少可再稱霸一年。