In pictures: Vietnamese Ao Dai during wartime

VietNamNet Bridge - Ho Chi Minh City’s War Remnants Museum has launched an exhibition tracing the history of Vietnam’s iconic long dress--Ao Dai, during wartime.

VietNamNet Bridge - Ho Chi Minh City’s War Remnants Museum has launched an exhibition tracing the history of Vietnam’s iconic long dress--Ao Dai, during wartime.

The exhibition, open until December 17, was part of activities marking Vietnam Cultural Heritage Day (November 23).

Visitors can admire the variety of Ao Dai styles worn by women who joined the past struggles against foreign invaders.

Dozens of exhibited artifacts and documents offer insights into the daily lives and revolutionary sacrifices of Vietnamese women during wartime.

The Museum’s organizing board also introduced a collection of Ao Dai from a variety of different historical periods.

Some ao dai on display at the exhibition:

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Foreign Minister of the Provisional Revolutionary Government of the Republic of South Vietnam Nguyen Thi Binh signed the Paris Accord on Vietnam on January 27, 1973 in Paris.

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Mrs. Tong Thi Ba visited her husband at the Con Dao prison in 1967.

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Schoolgirls of Duc Tri School made a strike protesting Lon Nol’s massacre of overseas Vietnamese living in Cambodia in 1970.

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The Ao Dai of Mrs. Nguyen Thi Phi Van, who participated in the movement of youth and students in Saigon - Gia Dinh in 1960. She wore an ao dai to deliver leaflets and transport weapons within the city. During the first three days in prison in May 1966, she wore the ao dai until it was torn by torture.

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The sewing machine of martyr Mai Hong Hanh, from Kien Giang province. She joined the revolution at the age of 14. From 1954 to 1957, she used the sewing machine for political activity. In September 1960, she was arrested, brutally tortured and murdered one month later.

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