If I Could Only Fit Into This Qi-Pao (aka Cheongsam)...

Every year or so, I bring out my mom's old qi-pao (aka cheongsam) and just sigh.  They don't make them like this one anymore:

I'm not fat but I'm not super tiny like her.  While I can fit into this dress, I cannot zip it up to my everlasting frustration!!  And yes, every time I bring it out, I try it on in hopes that the dress has miraculously gotten bigger or that I have miraculously shrunk enough so that I can zip it up.  Did I mention that I had a tailor undo the darts in the dress as well??  Pathetic, I know.  But they just don't do embroidery for qi-paos like this anymore.  And this dress is even lovelier IRL!!