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What are the characteristics of Korean clothing?

1. Korean traditional costumes are simple and elegant, and the color is mainly white, which symbolizes purity, kindness, nobility and sacredness, so the Korean people are known as the "nation in white".

2. Folk costumes. The biggest feature of Korean traditional costumes is that they are worn diagonally, without buttons, and tied with long cloth belts. The clothes of men and women are very different. Men wear pants and women wear skirts.

Men's clothes are short, trousers are long and fat, and they wear vests, and some wear Taoist robes or Korean robes. Taoist robes used to be used by literati and Confucian scholars, but later they became dresses for men to go out. Women are short skirts, just long enough to cover their breasts. They have a long white cloth belt with a bow under their right shoulder, and their long skirts have long folds all the way to their heels. Skirts can be divided into wrap skirts, tube skirts, long skirts, short skirts and aprons.

3. Traditional official clothing, Korean official clothing refers to the clothing of princes and nobles in past dynasties, which varies according to the official position, official position and status, but the basic styles are basically the same. As its representative, the coronation suit is made of black satin, with colored dragons on the shoulders and fire, insects and Zong Yi painted on the cuffs. The dress is sewn with red silk, and the front of the dress has patterns of seaweed, pink rice and squid.