Do you wear Thai clothes when traveling in Thailand?

When traveling in Thailand, I will wear Thai clothes. After all, when I go to a place, I must feel the local customs and traditional culture. Clothing is also a traditional culture.

Thailand's traditional national costumes are closely related to the natural geographical environment. Thailand is located in the tropics, and most areas are hot and rainy all the year round, which makes Thai people have obvious characteristics in clothing. For a long time, most Thai men didn't wear tops. In the early days of the Bangkok dynasty, officials only wore shirts when they went to the court to see the king. During the period of Rama IV, Thailand's contacts with foreign countries gradually increased.

The king didn't think the coat was indecent, and ordered all officials to wear clothes to enter the DPRK regardless of spring, summer, autumn and winter. 1898, Rama iv further stipulated that all adults should not be naked around palaces and temples. Later, the scope of application of this order continued to expand, that is, neither adults nor children were allowed to be naked in public. At the beginning of the 20th century, the custom of not wearing shirts gradually faded out of the living habits of the Thai people.

Thai people have their own traditional costumes, some of which are still popular today, while others have become history. For example, the tail-swinging curtain used to be traditional underwear in Thailand, which was worn by both men and women. The tail flick curtain is a piece of cloth, which is easy to wear. It is wrapped around the body, pulled forward, twisted into a bundle, then tightened from the leg to the hip and stuffed into the back.

Seen from the back, the tail-flick curtain looks like a tail, so it is called the tail-flick curtain. Today, tripper curtain has withdrawn from the Thai clothing line. However, people can still appreciate the elegance of this kind of clothing in dramas showing traditional Thai life. Thai court personnel have many exquisite traditional costumes. The colors of clothes on the 7th of every week are yellow, pink, green, orange, blue, purple and red. People from all walks of life also have this habit. But after the 1930s, this custom was no longer popular.

Today, great changes have taken place in modern Thai clothing, but they still retain some of their traditional national clothing styles. Thai clothing is relatively simple, men wear trousers and short-sleeved shirts, and women wear skirts. Men and women often wear slippers when they go out and go barefoot at home.