Difference between Tibetan and Mongolian Costumes

Tibetan and Mongolian costumes mainly differ in style and length.

1, style

The Tibetan costume is mainly the traditional Tibetan dress, characterized by long sleeves, wide waist and big lapels. Women wear long-sleeved robes in winter and sleeveless robes in summer, and wear various colors and patterns of shirts inside the Tibetan national costume, and tie a piece of colorful patterned apron in front of the waist.

And Mongolian costumes include jewelry, robes, belts and boots. Men, women and children like to wear robes all year round, spring and fall wear clip-on robes, summer with Mongolian dress single robe, winter with cotton robes or leather robes.

2, clothing length

The Tibetan robe is long, but men will not wrap the ankle but to the knee, the Mongolian robe is a long robe and will cover the calf.

Tibetan and Mongolian Clothing Culture

The Tibetan people, both men and women, wear long robes and belts. Men wear pleats at the back of their robes, and women wear pleats on the left and right sides of their robes. There are also not divided into men and women as in the robe on both sides of the hem pleated attire habits. But in the past, the dress of the officials, to the official position of the high and low has a special symbolic meaning. The people also said that there were various types of costumes such as the details and advantages and disadvantages of the nobles, commoners and civilians.

The wearing of Mongolian robe is a decent and serious thing, neat and proper wearing is a kind of respect no matter for yourself or for others. When wearing the robe, you must wear boots and a hat. Especially when it comes to the time of sacrifice, it must be a robe, boots, hat matching, so as to appear overall coordination, serious and solemn.

When serving tea and toasting, one must not push up the sleeves, one must not bare the chest and neck, and the hem of the robe must not be swept over the pots and pans. When packing and storing robes, the front flap should face up, and only the clothes of the dead should face down. The collar is placed against the northwest, not against the door. When sewing the robe, it is taboo to leave threads.

Reference for the above:

Baidu Encyclopedia-Tibetan Dress

Baidu Encyclopedia-Mongolian Dress