A close relative of the Bleu de Travail is the Mao Suit.
After the end of the Chinese Civil War and the establishment
of the People's Republic of China in 1949, such suits came to be worn widely by
males and government leaders as a symbol of proletarian unity and an Eastern
counterpart to the Western business suit. The name "Mao suit" comes
from Chinese leader Mao Zedong's fondness for wearing them in public, so that
the garment became closely associated with him and with Chinese communism in
general in the Western imagination. Although they fell into disuse among the
general public in the 1990s due to increasing Western influences, they are
still commonly worn by Chinese leaders during important state ceremonies and
functions.
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