Dressed in a green hanfu, a traditional Chinese dress, senior Alicia Xu sought to get more in touch with her culture through her senior prom attire. According to Xu, her mother picked out the dress when shopping in China, going with a green dress since green is Xu’s favorite color. 

​

“I've been thinking about this dress since last prom,” Xu said. “I have a friend of a friend who [is] Japanese and she's really into her culture and trying to reconnect with [it more], and I was thinking the same thing. I've been feeling really disconnected from my Chinese heritage. My mom went to visit China a few weeks ago, and that really inspired me to reconnect with my roots and my ancestry, [so] I thought it would be really nice to try something different and [wear] a cultural dress.”