Han Modern Clothing

Although Han clothing now is no longer being resisted by the Chinese citizens anymore, still only a small number of people know well about it. In order to make the Han clothing more attractive to modern people, Han clothing designers and merchants came up with a new type of clothes. It keeps the most important features of Han clothing, but it looks more like the modern clothes. They named it “Han modern clothing”.

Here is a picture of Han modern clothing:

Source: Douzi Mao

The most important feature of Han modern clothing is that it keeps the main elements of Han clothing. For example, both the tops and dresses have to be fastened by ropes or rope hookers, if there is any zipper on the clothes, it is not Han modern clothing anymore.

What’s more, never forget about the straight line in the middle of the clothes, the thing that encourages people to become an upright person, without that, it is just a well-designed modern clothes with no cultural spirit behind.

Normally, Han modern clothing is created by shortening the length of the dress or sleeves, letting people see more skin make them look more like a modern clothes. Also, some designers will add some modern elements on the normal Han clothings. For instance, add some lace on the sleeves, or put a pannier inside the dress, etc. The designer believed that the whole cultural spirit shouldn’t be banned in the same structure of clothes. In order to let the traditional clothing fits better in the modern society, it is necessary to discard the dross and select the essence. As long as they keep the most important elements, the culture will never die, not even if the make the clothes look like a bikini.