Transcript Chinese Clothing and Fashion

CHINESE CLOTHING AND
FASHION
BY : LAUREN HOOVER, AVRIE HAMMOND
CLOTHING FOR PEASANTS
• Poor people, or peasants in China dressed in loose cotton and hemp clothes both long ago and today.
• In the Ming Dynasty, common people were made to wear purple and blue clothes.
CLOTHING FOR RULERS
• In ancient China, rich people wore beautiful silk robes.
• Wealthy woman today still wear beautiful silk robes.
• Men normally wear a traditional Chinese gown for Chinese New Year.
MATERIAL
• The Chinese invented silk before anyone else.
• Silk worms spin fine threads that Chinese crafts people weave into silk.
• The silk can be died any color you want it to be.
• Silk was important to China because they had the secret for making it before any other
places.
HAIR STYLES
• In Ancient China, men tied their hair up in knot on top of their
head.
• Girls don’t wear buns they curled their hair up.
• The Manchu queue was the hair style men were forced to
wear during the Qing Dynasty. If they didn’t wear this hair
style, would risk their life.
RESOURCES
• www.ehow.com – Chinese clothing
• www.ducksters.com – Chinese clothing
• www.kidrex.com
• Books
• A Ticket to China – Janet Riehecky