Every May, the Ao Dai Festival brings the community together to honor and preserve Vietnamese heritage. The festival is considered the biggest Vietnamese fashion event in the United States.

Musgraves, who won four Grammy Awards this year, performed last week wearing an ao dai – a form-fitting Vietnamese tunic with long slits up both sides, typically worn over long flowing pants.

Saigon's gentlemen: The man of love letters Rolling back the years: Old Hanoi by bicycle The ao dai with the waspy waist (ao dai chit eo) was popular in the south of Vietnam in the 60s and 70s. It ...

"It is hard to put into words how much it means to me that we were able to join those emotions and experiences, turn it into an iconic ao dai, and share our heritage with the world." At the ...

A permanent ao dai exhibition in Saigon displays around 150 models of the national dress, tracing its development through different historical periods. The Ao dai Museum on Long Thuan Street, District ...

This First Person article is the experience of Tony Bui, a public servant in Ottawa. For more information about CBC's First Person stories, please see the FAQ. When I tried on my áo dài a few ...