What are the Dressing Customs of Fuqing People

In the Ming and Qing Dynasties, men and women in Fuqing wore rough clothes with wide sleeves and knee-length lapels and pants with wide leg openings. Men of rich families wore long shirts and waistcoats, and bead hats on their heads. Winter and summer clothing changes distinctly, while spring and fall only in the winter and summer clothing to reduce and increase. Fabrics are finely woven, and the colors are blue, green, red, green, yellow and white. Clothes and pants color collocation, interlaced, contrasting colors are obvious, mostly blue, green pants. Generally unmarried women wear pants, not skirts, married women are wearing red skirts. Long Kao Peninsula, can still be seen in the husband alive elderly women wearing red dresses. Widowed after marriage, women do not wear red, red skirt for life, the first three years of mourning, must wear green, white skirt, after three years changed to green, green skirt, skirt must cover the feet. Coastal sandy, women go out to farm or sea, commonly used towels wrapped around the head, around the neck; men wear pants pants are wider, conducive to sea work. Young girls wear single or double braids with one or two flowers or red velvet ropes at the end of the braids, and married women wear long buns, embellished with gold and silver jewelry.

Republic of China period, Zhongshan suit became popular in towns and intellectual circles, and there were many women wearing cotton tunics. Among university and high school students, men wore suits and women had cheongsams.

***At the beginning of the establishment of the Soviet Union and the country, the Soviet way of life, the women have short hair, the men have a "sideways" hairstyle. In the countryside, the elderly peasants mostly wear cloth buttons folded plain clothes and pants without pockets, the color of blue, green-based; middle-aged and elderly women mostly wear large-breasted clothes, under the plain pants. With the improvement of the farmers' life, Zhongshan clothes, youth clothes and military-style civilian clothes became popular from the late 1950s onwards.

During the Cultural Revolution, grass-green, yellow and gray military-style civilian clothes were popular throughout the county.

After 1978, especially into the 80s, fashion is constantly updated. Fuqing as a hometown of overseas Chinese, by the influence of foreign fashion, especially obvious. Spring, fall, summer and winter in Fuqing popular main fashion has spring and fall clothing, summer and winter fashion. Women's spring and fall clothing outer tops of the collar is mostly small collar or round suit collar, straight waist, shoulder pads, clothing length to the thighs of the knee, pants for straight pants. Skirt dresses are mostly popular in the summer, the late 80s, some young girls, wearing a dress, jacket a woolen undershirt. Men's spring and fall clothing tops are mostly straight neck, broad shoulders, row of buttons, or zipper type, pants are straight pants.

Summer fashion, women like to wear dresses, after 1985 there is a large contrast, that is, black, gray and white with each other. Skirt clothing in the suit skirt, undershirt skirt, halter dress, denim skirts and tricot skirts and so on. In addition, various kinds of suit shorts, denim shorts, Bermuda pants, towel shirts, Yuko shirts, etc. were also very popular. Men's popular clothing is still stand-up collar shirt with suit shorts.

Winter fashion, women mostly like different colors of windbreakers, long and short tweed coats, bateaux and ski shirts. There is also a wide range of fancy stick knitwear. The tunicization of sweaters is a new trend. Men generally wear suits, hunting clothes, riding clothes, traveling shirts, ski shirts or sweat pants, and long and short tweed coats. Farmers tend to wear Zhongshan clothing and military-style civilian clothes.