The history of modern clothing development in China

1, 1840 after the Opium War modern dress:

China entered the modern era. The invasion of imperialism gradually reduced China to a semi-feudal and semi-colonial status. At the same time, the influence of Western capitalist culture is also increasingly expanding, clothing and dress changes with it. Women's hair ornaments, with the transformation of social customs and constantly changing.

Men's clothing mainly include robes, waistcoats, etc. Among them, robes and waistcoats are the most popular. Among them, the long robe and waistcoat are the costumes stipulated in the Clothing System, which are generally used for socializing. The most important feature of women's costumes is the widespread wearing of cheongsams.

The cheongsam was originally a favorite garment of Manchu women, and the cheongsam originated from the Manchu women's dress in the cheongsam. The main features of the Manchu cheongsam are wide, flat and straight, the length of the garment and the foot, the material is mostly satin, the garment is embroidered with floral patterns, and the collar, the garment, the lapel, and the train are rolled with wide lace. When wearing flag dress, comb flag bun, wear flag shoes.

2, (1820s) the early years of the Republic of China dress:

The early years of the Republic of China women's clothing in this period of the most popular tops and skirts, tops have shirts, jackets, undershirts, the style of the placket, pipa placket, one placket, placket, placket, placket, oblique placket and other changes in the collar, sleeves, placket, hem rolling lace or embroidery, hem square and round, wide, thin and short variations are also more.

In the 1920s, cheongsam began to popularize. Its style is not much different from the late Qing Dynasty cheongsam. But soon, the cuffs gradually narrowed, the piping is not as wide as before. To the end of the twenties, due to the influence of European and American clothing, cheongsam style also has obvious changes, such as some shorten the length, some tighten the waist and so on.

By the early thirties, the cheongsam had become popular. At that time, the style changes mainly focused on the collar, sleeves and length. First popular high collar, the higher the collar the more fashionable, even in the summer, thin as a cicada wing cheongsam must be matched with a high and ear-high stiff collar. Gradually and popular low collar, the lower the collar the more "modern", when low to really can not be low, simply wear a cheongsam without a collar.

Sleeve changes, too, when the popular long, longer than the wrist; when the popular short, short to the elbow.

Republic of China men's clothing is mainly horse coat and long shirt. Used as a dress coat, long shirt, its style, material, color and size have a certain style. For example, the waistcoat is generally made of black silk, linen, cotton and wool products, with narrow sleeves, long to the abdomen, and five buttons nailed to the front lapel.

The tunic is blue, and its shape is a large lapel right overlooking the ankle two inches long, the sleeve length and the waistcoat and flush. Slit on the right and left sides of the hem. Used for casual wear, the color of the coat, long shirt, can be arbitrary.

3, (1830s) modern Republic of China in the middle of the men's clothing:

Republic of China in the middle of the popularity of student clothes, many intellectuals and young students also like to wear "student clothes", the style of this garment is a square collar. Wearing this kind of clothing, can give a person a kind of spirit, solemn feeling.

Mr. Sun Yat-sen liked it so much that he called it the "Zhongshan suit". However, the Zhongshan suit at that time was different in form from what is now known as the Zhongshan suit. There was also a men's garment called the "suit".

4, the late twenties of the twenties women's clothing:

Generally speaking, it seems that the clothing of this period, to adopt the western style is more, the traditional characteristics of the retention is less. After a period of time, it became more common to adopt a style of dress that was both suitable for Chinese women and absorbed the advantages of the Western style, namely the "cheongsam". In addition to the cheongsam, there was also the zori dress clothing style, characterized by a stand-up collar, wide cuffs, short jacket with elbows exposed and a long skirt.

5, the mid to late 1920s:

The main clothing of the working people were Chinese jacket and Chinese pants. This was determined by the economic conditions and lifestyle of the working people.

Expanded Information:

Effects of Costume Change:

Costume is the unique human It is not only the crystallization of material civilization, but also the meaning of spiritual civilization. Human society has been marching slowly for hundreds of thousands of years from obscurantism and barbarism to the age of civilization.

After bidding farewell to the apes and monkeys, our ancestors wandered in the wind and rain for uncountable years with animal skins and leaves, and finally crossed the threshold of the civilized era with great difficulty, knowing how to cover their bodies and create a material civilization. However, the pursuit of beauty is human nature, clothing in people, such as gold in the Buddha, its role is not only in covering the body warm body, but also has the function of beautification.

Almost from the day of the origin of the dress, people have deposited their living customs, aesthetic interests, color hobbies, as well as all kinds of cultural mentality and religious concepts into the dress, which has constructed the spiritual civilization connotation of the dress culture.

Chinese dress, like Chinese culture, is the result of the mutual penetration and influence of various ethnic groups. Since the Han and Tang dynasties, and especially after the modern era, a great deal of absorption and melting of the excellent crystallization of foreign cultures of the world's various nationalities have evolved into the overall so-called Chinese dress culture with the Han race as the main body.

This is a fulfillment of the assertion of the American anthropologist, Yingfei, that "the question of whether a cultural item is the result of foreign penetration or the product of natural and independent invention is crucial for those who focus on historical heritage, and also for those who use comparative research methods.

We can say with certainty that more than ninety percent of all cultures first appeared in the form of cultural penetration."

To understand the diverse styles, unique styles, distinctive colors and exquisite craftsmanship of Chinese clothing, the first issue should be a little shallow knowledge of the Chinese nation's vast and profound trajectory of the development of the dress culture, so that through browsing, to intentionally open up to explore the heritage of the Chinese dress culture.

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