How many categories are there in women's wear of Shui nationality?

Women's dresses of Shui nationality are mostly sewn with water armor cloth, without collars, big skirts, semi-gowns and long gowns. Robes are knee-length and generally have no embroidered edges. Holiday and wedding costumes are completely different from usual. The shoulders and cuffs of the wedding dress, the knee bends of the trousers are inlaid with embroidered ribbons, and the headscarf also has colorful patterns. Wear a silver crown on the head, a silver collar on the neck, a silver bracelet on the wrist, a silver elegant collar on the chest, silver earrings on the earlobe and embroidered shoes on the feet. Brides usually dress beautifully and behave gracefully.

In addition, women's embroidered suspenders are more artistic. It is said to be a "belt", but it is actually a gorgeous embroidered "T"-shaped "curtain" with belts on both sides of the upper end. The curtain is big enough to wrap the child. It is made by winding a white ponytail with white silk thread, adding silk threads of other colors, respectively embroidering various patterns, and finally splicing the embroidered patterns onto the strap fabric. Straps are beautiful and practical, and they are the best gifts for mothers to give to their married daughters. A married woman carries her baby on her back with a belt. The halter top is exquisitely embroidered, which is also a part of her personal decoration.

There are many kinds of traditional costumes of Shui women, which can be roughly divided into five types according to their characteristics: women in Sandu County, Shuilong, Qin Zhou and the neighboring dushan county chicken farm wear blue dresses and indigo pants; Embroidered long waist, neck with silver training at the upper end of the waist, and jacquard ribbons tied around the waist at both sides, which are dragged behind; Wear embroidered shoes with pointed hooks or embroidered shoes with gold ingots; Long hair was combed to the right, and swept across the left forehead. A wooden comb was inserted obliquely into the right hairline, wrapped in a six-foot white hairband, and the hair on the wooden comb and forehead was exposed outside hairband. Married women decorate vests, skirts, cuffs and trouser legs. A welt with a large piece of oblique green cloth has two welts on the outer edge and lace on the welt (commonly known as "railing"). The "railing" of the trouser leg is set below the knee, and the "railing" of the cuff is about three inches away from the cuff. This is the most common dress for Shui women.

The costumes of Shui women in Sandu County, Qiandongnan, adjacent to Rongjiang County and Leishan County are: narrow-sleeved trouser legs, white headscarf at the back of the neck, top bun and plaid square scarf.

The Shui women in Jiuqian area of Sandu County and Libo County take pleasure in the blue-purple overskirt, collarless right lapel, plain long waist without embroidery, exquisite silver chain and embroidered belt. Married women don't hang their waists, but wear rectangular blue-purple waist towels. Shui women in Duyun have lace on their clothes and trousers. The clothes are knee-length, with wide body, sleeves and trouser legs, and the short waist is equipped with a belt instead of a silver chain; A long handkerchief with a white towel tied horizontally.

Except for the costumes of the Shui women who live together with the Miao people in Niuchang, Pu 'an and other places in Sandu County, there is not much difference between the costumes of the Shui women and the local Miao people.