The similarities and differences between Tujia and Miao costumes

Tujia people "men and women with sideburns, short clothes and bare feet, with cloth on the forehead, and like the color of the clothes". In the past, "men's and women's clothing, to the rich and the poor, the poor only enough to cover the body, the rich summer kudzu winter fur." Tujia people wear clothing materials, generally self-weaving, self-dyeing cloth, history books called "creek cloth", "hole cloth", mostly green, blue color. Clothing style: Young men mostly wear short clothes with lapels. There are also those who wear "pipa lapel". Women's clothing is all big coat with big sleeves, pants are also particularly large; cuffs and trouser legs are set on the mouth of the five-inch-wide lace, and the cuffs of the pants leg mouth with the same color. Women generally do not wrap their feet. Men and women like to wrap their heads, wrapped in black and white long handkerchiefs, never leave the four seasons. The length of the headband reaches more than one zhang, wrapped into a "human character road" style. The short jacket is made of black cloth, and the jacket is hung with a single piece of black cloth.

Miao people dress a variety of clothing, women's clothing generally for the upper collarless lapel, large and short sleeves, clothes long to the knee, that is, the "front cover shame, after covering the ditch", there are colors of cloth for the outside shoulder, cuffs, lapel edge are lace, under the suit has two kinds of pants and skirts, pants are large and short, set with lace, skirts, skirts more than a very dense folding skirts, skirts up to the ankle, inside the trousers. Inside are long pants. Men's clothing, the old man without collar, right oblique lapel, like to tie the belt, young people are wearing more lapel, 7 or 9 buttons, long sleeves and small mouth, men and women more head wraps, the old man like green, young people like white. Turban longer, often wrapped into a large disk. Men and women are tied legs. Women wear more gold and silver hand jewelry, collars, etc.