What is the change of clothing in China since modern times?

The changes of modern clothing in China have roughly gone through three stages. The first stage was from the Opium War to the founding of New China. The main feature of clothing is the combination of Chinese and western, and some materials can be directly summarized into eight words: the combination of Chinese and western, the coexistence of local and foreign. The typical representative of men's wear is Zhongshan suit, and the typical representative of women's wear is cheongsam.

The traditional men's wear in China is the robe and jacket. After the Opium War, suits were introduced into China. The combination of traditional robes and jackets produced the modern Chinese tunic suit. Based on the suit, it changed the lapel of the suit into a stand collar, and designed four pockets on the front, five buttons symbolizing the harmony between Tibetan and Han nationalities, and three buttons on two cuffs symbolizing freedom, equality, fraternity, nationality, civil rights and people's livelihood respectively.

At that time, the typical representative of women's dress was the improved cheongsam, which was changed into full-width cuffs and modified according to the beauty of human body curve, which not only borrowed from western aesthetics, but also combined with the creation of traditional China modeling.

In the 1920s, influenced by western costumes, the improved cheongsam gradually became popular among women. This kind of cheongsam was introduced to thousands of households by Han women through continuous improvement after absorbing western clothing styles.

The second stage refers to the period from the founding of New China to 1978. The typical feature of this stage is that clothing is influenced by political life. In 1950s and 1960s, clothing was also associated with the Soviet Union because of our relationship with the Soviet Union. The popular clothing was Lenin's clothing and Blagi. In the 1960s and 1970s, military uniforms dominated, and the social feature was "blue sea and green sea".

The third stage is after 1978. Clothing in this period was influenced by Hong Kong, Taiwan, Europe and America, and the material, fancy and style of clothing changed qualitatively. People changed from wearing warm clothes to wearing beautiful clothes. The pursuit of personalized performance, and even the pursuit of brand effect. The change of clothes not only shows the improvement of people's material life, but also shows the change of people's ideas, which also reflects the enhancement of our national strength from one side.