What a lovely idea! Wearing the nyonya kebaya the way Adele Lim did, I could not help but admire her creativity. The nyonya kebaya is a traditional dress of Malacca's Baba and Nyonya, descendants of Chinese who came and intermarried the locals in Malaya a long time ago . Women normally fasten their kebayas with kerongsang and wear them with sarongs but the ways Adele let hers hang freely like an outer coat over her modern dress is giving a new twist to an old story. Adele Lim of course is creative. A scriptwriter by profession, the Malaysian writer based in Los Angeles recently rode high in the wave of success with the hit Hollywood movie, Crazy Rich Asians. She had been involved with TV shows too, in such hits like Xena: Warrior Princess and One Tree Hill. Her name had actually rang a bell for at 17, she had already written for the local paper, The Star. Many talented Chinese always end up in other shores, I suppose...
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