Horse-faced dresses are from which dynasty

The Horse Face Dress is from the Song Dynasty.

The horse-faced skirt is derived from the Song Dynasty spinning skirt, a two-piece apron. The one-piece apron with multiple panels, on the other hand, dates back to at least the Yin Shang period. The skirt of the Song Dynasty already had the horse-face shape of the horse-face skirt. The spinning skirt was a functional "skirt with open crotch" designed by Song women to facilitate donkey riding.

Meng Hui, in "The Slit Skirt," said, "This type of Song skirt is a composite of two equal-sized, independent skirts, and when the skirt is made, the two skirts are partially overlapped and then sewn to the waist of the skirt." Horse-faced skirts were most popular during the Ming and Qing dynasties, a period when horse-faced skirts flourished.

The women's dress of the Qing Dynasty inherited the tradition of the Ming Dynasty, and the horse-faced skirt, based on the inheritance of the skirt style of the Ming Dynasty, gradually developed into the daily attire of Han women in the Qing Dynasty through further derivation, becoming the iconic skirt style of women.

At the same time, the decorative meaning of the horse skirt in the Qing Dynasty became stronger and stronger. The side skirt is either a pleated skirt with fine tucks or a longitudinally trimmed skirt with a dry satin border. The rich embroidery patterns on the skirt and the elaborate decoration of the satin edges all emphasize the exquisite skills of traditional Chinese women's red. Horse-face skirt matured in the Qing Dynasty and continued until the Republic of China.

Horse skirt decoration and fabric

Ming Dynasty horse skirt color and elegant, simple decoration, live folds large and sparse. To the Qing Dynasty, is a change in the light style, the pursuit of gorgeous and rich style, there are five design methods, one is the stitching, the second is from the front to the back around the system, the third is stacked pleats, the fourth is the lack of crotch, and the fifth is set with appendage edge.

The horse-faced skirts of the Qing Dynasty emphasized on the decoration of the skirt door and the skirt edge, and even each fine pleat or appendage was decorated with delicate patterns, mostly using seed embroidery, pan gold embroidery, cloth embroidery, painting and other crafts. The skirt door is even more richly decorated, the outer skirt door has a variety of auspicious motifs to seawater river cliffs, dragons and phoenixes, auspicious eight treasures, birds, flowers, insects and butterflies are the most popular.

Some skirts are also decorated with tassels, and the skirt is rolled with continuous patterns. Horse-face skirt pattern and successive generations of dress pattern is a lineage, full of traditional cultural characteristics. From the Ming Dynasty to the Qing Dynasty horse skirt in the form of rich up, but also highlights the people's aesthetic trends as well as the sense of independent innovation.