Chapter 16 Section 3 women's clothing

Han women's clothing followed the old customs of the Qin and Han Dynasties during the Wei and Jin Dynasties, with shirts, trousers, jackets, skirts and other shapes.After the Northern and Southern Dynasties, it gradually changed.In the early days, most of the clothes worn by women were double-breasted, with wide sleeves and a patch sleeve of a different color on the cuff.The long skirts worn have many styles and rich colors, including inter-color skirts, crimson gauze double skirts, Danbi gauze pattern double skirts, etc.There is a silk belt tied at the waist.Some even wear a pair of aprons around their waists to tie their waists.In addition, among some women, there are women who wear a kind of women's clothing called miscellaneous train and drooping skirt.This is a variation of deep clothing.It is characterized by the decoration of "饳 [xianxian] 髾" on the clothing.The so-called 髾 refers to a kind of decoration fixed on the hem of the clothes.It is generally made of silk fabric, wide at the top and pointed at the bottom, shaped like a triangle, and overlapped in layers; the so-called 襳 refers to the streamers protruding from the skirt.Because the streamer is long, it affects the sharp corners of the hem when walking, like a swallow flying.Gu Kaizhi, a famous painter in the Jin Dynasty, based on Cao Zhi's "Luo Shen Fu Tu" is wearing this kind of clothing for the goddess.Its sleeves are flying and its ribbons are flying, which can be called "extraordinary costumes" (Cao Zhi).In the Northern and Southern Dynasties, people removed the ribbons and lengthened the "swallow tail" with sharp corners to make the two into one.

In addition to shirts and skirts, northern minority women also wear trouser pleats and crotch.It's just that women are different from men. The crotch is mostly worn inside at first, and then it is covered over the shirt and jacket.Women who wear trouser pleats often wear cage crowns on their heads.Some of them also wore crotch at the same time, the same attire as the men at that time.