The popular half-arm clothing style in Ming Dynasty

The popular clothing style in Ming Dynasty is "Half Arm".

12 cross-neck split right, sleeveless or half-sleeved, short-sleeved, split left and right, double pendulum. Juyilu: "Manage it, wear a semi-gown", which originated from the official dress of Sui Dynasty. Tong Ya said, "Tsui Hark said," You are bald with sleeves. "That is, what the ancients called a half-arm. In the Tang Dynasty, men mostly wore a half-arm under a round neck robe. "Name Inspection" said: "This shows that Dafu's half arm is between the two arms, and now it is almost the same. "

By the Yuan Dynasty, the use of money was more common. In the Ming dynasty, literati generally wore complete sets of clothes, such as ties, round necks and straight bodies. Sometimes they use it directly to make coats, but it's not common. Sleeveless robes appeared in the late Ming Dynasty, which was obviously influenced by cassock. It can be seen that the design of clothing in Ming Dynasty is also very flexible.

Briefly describe the main characteristics of Ming Dynasty costumes

Compared with the Tang suit, the Ming suit is obviously inverted in the proportion of dresses, from the short coat to the long hem, the coat is gradually lengthened and the length of the exposed skirt is shortened. The collar has also changed from a pair of lapels in the Song Dynasty to a round neck. In the Ming Dynasty, the blouse was narrow-sleeved and three-collared, more than three feet long, revealing a skirt of two or three inches, which was called "big-sleeved round neck corolla skirt coat". At that time, a new style was popular in Yangzhou: blouses were 2' 8 "long, sleeves were 1 2" wide, sleeves were inlaid with splendid flowers, and mink fox skin was inlaid in winter.

At the beginning of the Ming Dynasty, the skirt was light in color; During the Chongzhen period, white skirts were advocated. This skirt has an embroidered edge of one or two inches. At the beginning of the Ming Dynasty, the skirt width was six, and it developed into eight or ten at the end of the Ming Dynasty. Skirt pleats are very popular, with thin pleats and large pleats. Folding decoration is very particular.

There is a striped skirt, each of which is made of satin of the same color. Each piece of colored satin is embroidered with flowers and birds, and the edge of the belt is inlaid with gold thread, which can become an independent strip. Several such colored stripes are spliced on the belt to form a striped skirt, so it is named "phoenix tail skirt". Some also hand-made the whole piece of satin into fine pleats and named it "pleated skirt". A 24% off skirt, named "Jade Skirt".