Why do comedians wear robes?

The dominant costume in the Qing Dynasty was the lab coat (robe), so the artists would perform in the simplest way, making a new set of lab coat, which was their own performance costume, and then changing it down and wearing the old one, and then making another set when the performance costume was old, and then using the original one as a casual dress. Everything was done to save a few bucks to feed the family. And it's been passed down to this day, so comedy has continued to use the lab coat as its main costume.

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In the past, ordinary people didn't have so many colors of clothes to wear, so the coats worn by the comedians were mainly in black, green, gray and blue. There are also rules for wearing a lab coat. Generally speaking, a white lab coat is worn inside the lab coat, and then a lab coat is put on the outside, which reveals the white cuffs and the white collar.

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After the liberation, all kinds of operas flourished. The colors of the coats also varied, with red, pink, yellow and even green appearing. The new form of comedy performance then appeared, the coat can no longer meet the needs of the performance, so the performance of comedy and the emergence of Zhongshan suit, "Tang", suits and so on.

While there is a wide variety of costumes in comedy performances nowadays, there is still a need to match the costumes worn by the comedian and the comic actors. Generally, they wear the same color and style of clothing, or similar color, can be matched with the clothing.

The significance of performing in a comedy show is different from what we usually wear, which is to look pretty or to cover up defects, whereas a comedy show is different, and everything has to revolve around "respecting the audience".

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