Tang Costume: The Never Changing Charm

Tang costume culture

One is the traditional "skirt", which is popular in the early Tang Dynasty. It basically follows the traditional costume system of Chinese women since the Eastern Han Dynasty.

We are now talking about two words of clothing, in fact, clothes are clothes, clothes are clothes, clothes are upper bodies, and clothes actually refer to skirts, clothes and clothes separated by modern times.

This woman's dress is not a continuous dress, but a two piece way to wear until the end of the Ming Dynasty.

The way to wear the jacket is basically the right cross collar or the tie on the collar, the skirt below is tied up with a long skirt, the jacket or the inside is loose or natural, and then the loose jacket continues to lengthen, which has been covered to the knees, and later developed into the back of the Ming Dynasty.

With the development, the women's jackets in the Tang Dynasty are generally divided into three types, namely, the jacket, the jacket and the shirt.

It is a narrow or short jacket or cotton padded jacket.

The coat is longer and shorter than the robe, and the clothes are loose and also have a jacket or cotton padded clothes.

There are two kinds of sleeves: narrow sleeves and long sleeves.

Shirt is sleeveless single coat, functional sweat absorption, there are two pairs of buttons and right.

Shirts can also be worn outside in spring and autumn, but unlike those with short sleeves on the outside, the latter develops into dorsal or half arms.

In the past, the shape of the skirt had always been a rectangular square skirt with a similar kimono skirt.

The style of square skirt is stiff and rigid, so women can not dress beautifully.

Therefore, in the Tang Dynasty, the form of skirts was popular with high waist and chest and wide swinging. It can not only reveal the curvilinear beauty of human body, but also show a beautiful and elegant style.

The structure of this skirt must be adapted to the main structure of the human body, so it is a multi fold skirt with circular arc and a trumpet skirt.

By the way, it is worth mentioning that the skirt with a high waist will bring the skirt to the chest, which will also affect the dress style of the DPRK and Korea.

Two, in the middle and late Tang Dynasty, the traditional aesthetic concept of the Chinese people was strengthened in the clothing, and began to restore to the ancients. From the appearance of the woman's body, it gradually returned to the style of the big sleeves and elegant style of the Qin and Han Dynasties. The style of the dress became more and more fat. The style of this style had always affected the basic concept of the later Chinese women's dress, and it was loose and loose.

Women's clothing in middle and late Tang Dynasty is gorgeous and atmosphere, which is similar to the dress. They directly wear the bra. The bra is originally underwear, formed a body in the Tang Dynasty and skirt combination, it is not a waistband, it is loose and natural.

Wearing a blouse directly outside, the blouse is usually very gorgeous, basically dragging to the ground, some up to a few meters, for example, some sleeves 4 feet wide, and dragging 5 feet, so, as in Europe later, the length of the dress determines the status of women.

The blouse is usually wide sleeved. Wide sleeves are the broad sleeves that we often see. The wide sleeves of the Tang Dynasty are basically square shaped, similar to today's kimono sleeves.

In addition, there is also a dress in the late Tang Dynasty, called the Chai Dian dress.

It is a further proof of the pition from the middle and late Tang dynasty women's clothing to the ancient ceremonial dress. This style is a layer of layers of dress, with numerous layers and heavy towing pendulum, which is very troublesome to wear.

First, I put on many layers of wide sleeved jackets, stacked on top of them, and then surrounded the heavy skirt with great mopping, the famous "Tang skirt", and then put on a broad wide sleeved jacket on the outside. Though it was cumbersome, it gave people a sense of stability and a sense of hierarchy.

It is worth mentioning that Japan's famous ancient court kimono "Twelve single" is evolved from this dress.

The Japanese call it "Tang Yi", that is, the styles and costumes of Tang Dynasty have not changed much.