What changes have taken place in China people's clothing since the 1940s?

Zhongshan suit appeared around 1940s, and gradually became popular in cities. The vast rural areas have always followed the traditional coat pants, wearing felt hats or top hats, and wearing their own sewn cloth shoes. Women's wear, the revolution of 1911 brought diversification, some wore coats and trousers, and some wore coats and skirt suits. Since the 1940s, women have loved cheongsam, which has gradually become a fashion.

After the founding of the People's Republic of China, clothing advocated simplicity and practicality. From 1950s to 1970s, Zhongshan suit gradually became the main clothing for men. In addition, military casual clothes and civilian clothes were also very popular. Women's wear was influenced by the Soviet Union, and dresses were popular in cities. Besides, Lenin's clothes are very popular. But in rural areas, it has always been the traditional dress of most farmers.

After 1978, China implemented the policy of reform and opening up, which reflected the spirit of the times, and costumes with China national characteristics mushroomed and took on a new look. Among them, Hanfu, which represents China's traditional costumes for a long time and is influenced by multi-ethnic costumes, shines brilliantly.

After the wave of reform and opening up swept across the country, "bell bottoms", "red skirts" and "fitness pants" were all the rage. From then on, you can see in the street that people's clothes have more fabric styles, more beautiful decorative patterns on their clothes and more dazzling colors in front of them.

From robes, jackets, dida, dresses, melon seeds hats to suits and T-shirts, from gray, blue and white to colorful, from boring to individuality, from closed to open, from single to diverse, from self-made to online Taobao, how great changes have taken place in our clothing since the reform and opening up 40 years ago. Those clothes, shirts, trousers and skirts are the past history and contemporary fashion.

From these changes in people's clothes, we can see the changes in the motherland and a brand-new, open, confident and pluralistic China. I sincerely wish the motherland more and more prosperous and our life more and more happy and healthy.

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Qing dynasty costumes:

During the Qing dynasty, shaving and changing clothes were carried out by violent means, and men's clothes were unified according to Manchu customs. In the ninth year of Shunzhi (1652), the regulations on wearing colorful epaulettes were promulgated, abolishing the crown clothes with strong colors in China.

In the Ming Dynasty, all men wore their hair in a bun and wore loose clothes, stockings and pumps. In the Qing dynasty, the hair was shaved into braids, and the braids hung behind the head, wearing thin horseshoe cufflinks and tight socks and deep boots. However, according to the law, official and folk costumes are completely different.

The development of women's wear in Qing dynasty, Han nationality and Manchu nationality was different. During Kang Yong period, Han women kept Ming style, while clothes and long skirts were popular in small sleeve. After finishing, the clothes are getting fatter and shorter, the cuffs are getting wider and wider, and with the cloud shoulders, the pattern renovation is endless; By the end of the Qing Dynasty, urban women had put on skirts and trousers, which were inlaid with lace and rolled teeth, and most expensive clothes were spent on them.

Manchu women wear "flag clothes", comb the flag bun (commonly known as two ends) and wear "flowerpot bottom" flag shoes. As for the so-called flag dress, which was circulated in later generations, it was mainly used in the court and the royal family for a long time. At the end of the Qing Dynasty and the beginning of the Republic of China, the ladies of the Han nationality also imitated the flag dress.

Baidu Encyclopedia-History of Chinese Clothing