Áo dài ao dai experienced a revival beginning in late 1980s, when state enterprise and schools began adopting the dress as a uniform again. In 1989, 16,000 Vietnamese attended a Miss Ao Dai Beauty Contest held in Ho Chi Minh City. When the Miss International Pageant in Tokyo gave its "Best National Costume" award to an ao dai-clad Trường Quỳnh Mai in 1995, "Thời Trang Trẻ" (New Fashion Magazine) claimed that Vietnam's "national soul" was "once again honored". An "ao dai craze" followed that lasted for several years and led to wider use of the dress as a school uniform. No longer
The White Silk Dress in Hoi An as Dan is about to give birth to their first child who is named Hoi An. As the rain season begins, Dan holds her baby inside their flooded house. Suddenly, Gu fishes their ao dai which inside is the sprouted glosbe which used to be used for their wedding ceremony back in their hometown, Dan tells Gu to plant the glosbe so when it grows a big paddle of glosbe, she will be officially wife of Gu. The rain stops and the flood withdraws, Gu plants the glosbe in the garden in front of their house. More