What Chinese clothing is
 Cultural significance
 Ancient Clothing
 Traditional Clothing
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What Chinese clothing is
Chinese clothing was one of the most unique
things in china’s history. The most common
garment in Chinese clothing was the tunic which
came in many different varieties. All of the
Chinese clothing traditions had to be followed
because if not you would be considered a
barbarian or even a foreigner. (Which was
considered a very bad thing because they were an
isolated country.)
Chinese clothing got changed a lot during time.
Ancient Clothing
The tunic trend
 Social distinction by clothing
 The first sign of cotton
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The tunic trend
Traditionally women in China would be seen in a
long tunic that goes to the ground. They would
tie it with a belt or a sash that if possible would
have jade on it. Men would also have tunics but
their would stop at their knees and underneath
their tunics they would wear pants. Both men and
women would wear padded jackets over their
tunics during the season of winter.
Social distinction by clothing
The kind of fabric people used would tell other
people of their social status. Most of China’s
population was not rich back then. All of these
people would wear clothes made out of hemp or
ramie. These were two kinds of fabric in which were
very affordable but they still did what they were
supposed to. These people would have to make
their clothes for them selves as they could not afford
for it to be done for them. As for the richer people
they would wear silk tunics & they would not have
had to do the hard labour of making their clothes
for other people would do it for them. Then in the
Chinese Silk
Silk was first discovered first in China in the 30th
century BC in the time that the Yellow Emperor
came in power. Silk is one of the best materials
for clothing, but it was a very expensive material
and only very fortunate people who could afford
this material were able to wear it.
The introduction of cotton
During the mong era the Chinese introduced
cotton as a material to make clothes. The
Mongols use of cotton spread around china and
before long all of the mulberry trees used to
make the silk had been destroyed. The
introduction of cotton helped eliminate social
distinction that had arisen due to different
clothing materials that different classes used.
Cotton was much much better than hemp or
ramie it was a soft material and it also looked
decent, though it was a very good material it was
still very cheap. Although cotton was supposed to
Traditional clothing: most popular
dresses
Pien Fu
 Sheni
 Chang Pao
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Pien Fu
The Pien Fu was the most popular Chinese dress
by far. It was a two piece outfit that contains a
tunic that goes down to your knees. Underneath
the tunic they wore a skirt that goes down to their
ankles. But the Pien Fu would not be the Pien Fu
with out the Pien, the Pien is a cylinder shaped
hat. This is a very unique costume that was kept
for special ceremonies.
Sheni
The Sheni is a modification of the Pien Fu. It
consists of exactly the same things as the Pien Fu
but the unique thing about this dress is that both
pieces are stitched together. So it look like on
very long suit-dress.
Chang Pao
This was perhaps the simplest of all traditional
Chinese clothing. In its essence the Chang Pao
dress was a fusion of the Sheni and the Pien Fu. It
was a one piece suit that started from the height
of the shoulders and extended down to the
wearer’s ankles.