Wǔshí niándài de Zhōngguó gūniang hěn liúxíng chuān bùlājí.
Chinese girls in the 1950s commonly wore the bulaji dress.
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history
布拉吉 is a phonetic loan from Russian платье (plat'ye, 'dress') that entered Chinese during the 1950s Sino-Soviet friendship era. The garment — a loose, often floral one-piece — became iconic of that decade and is now mostly used nostalgically.
memory
Hear it as 'boo-LA-jee' — the word itself is foreign, so don't try to read meaning into the characters 布 (cloth) 拉 (pull) 吉 (lucky); they are pure transliteration.
