What does zori mean?

P袄: a Chinese top with a lining.

The way to write the character for "zori"

Chinese blouse with a lining. It is usually divided into 3 categories:

A jacket with two layers on one side, a cotton-padded jacket with wadding between the insides, and a leather jacket made from tanned animal skins.

By the length of the coat can be divided into large and small coat.

The large jacket is a long jacket with a hemline above and below the knee; the small jacket is a short jacket with a hemline between the waist and the hips.

The origin of the jacket:

The name of the jacket first appeared in the period of the North and South Dynasties, such as the Southern Song Dynasty, there is a "cloth shirt jacket," the Northern Qi Dynasty, there is a "hakama jacket," etc.. "


The name of jacket first appeared in the North and South Dynasties. Since then, the jacket has become a common clothing. In the Sui Dynasty, the "Hakama Zori" was used as a uniform for military officials, and was imported to Japan in the Tang Dynasty. In the Song Dynasty, the jacket was developed from the upper jacket of the Tang Dynasty. At the end of the Qing Dynasty, the basic form of the jacket was a stand-up collar, shoulder sleeves, a right lapel, and a slit hem.

Ancient jacket

From the beginning of the 20th century, the men's jacket was predominantly placketed; the women's jacket was placketed with a right placket, bias placket, pipa placket, opposite placket, left placket, and back slit placket, with variations in the collar, sleeves, and hemline. The more elaborate jacket, mostly made of silk fabrics, utilizes traditional decorative techniques, forming a rich oriental style of national costumes. In addition, due to the influence of Western clothing styles, the modern Zoroastrian jacket also has a lapel jacket, sleeve jacket, etc., called the Chinese and Western-style jacket.