[Tips on Hanfu] Chest-length underskirt
Chest-length skirt is a name for a unique women's skirt during the Sui, Tang and Five Dynasties. It is a type of traditional clothing of the Han nationality. Since the Han and Jin Dynasties, the skirt of the skirt has been tied around the waist.
In ancient times, most women's skirts were not tied very high. However, from the Northern and Southern Dynasties to the Sui, Tang and Five Dynasties, a kind of skirt with a very high waist appeared. In some clothing history, it is often called a high-waisted skirt.
High-waisted skirt is just a common name. According to people's current research on it, it is generally called chest-length skirt. We often say that we prostrate ourselves under the pomegranate skirt, which refers to the chest-length undershirt.
In the Tang Dynasty, the country was unified, the economy was prosperous, social fashions were relatively open, and the clothing styles were colorful and magnificent.Various, elegant and gorgeous, for example, there are many types of collars on jackets: round collar, square collar, straight collar, sweetheart collar and so on.
Chest-length underskirts are generally divided into two types, one is the chest-length undershirt with a double-breasted skirt, and the other is a cross-collar chest-high underskirt. Generally speaking, the chest-length underskirt with a double-breasted skirt is more widely used.
The chest-length skirt was first seen in the Southern and Northern Dynasties. It went through the Sui, Tang and Five Dynasties until the rise of Neo-Confucianism in the Song Dynasty before being eliminated by history. It has a history of about 1,000 years. Most of the pottery figurines or paintings unearthed before the Tang Dynasty have straps.
In the Sui Dynasty and the early Tang Dynasty, women wore short jackets with small sleeves and tight-fitting long skirts. The skirts were tied at a high waist, usually above the waist, and some were even tied under the armpits and tied with ribbons., giving people a pretty and slender feeling.
Chest-length skirts were very popular among ladies in the Tang Dynasty. Many ancient paintings and unearthed cultural relics that have been preserved today have traces of them. During the Kaiyuan period of the Tang Dynasty, they were fastened to the armpits with laces.
Under the influence of the prosperous age of the Tang Dynasty, the underskirts were fully developed, with half arms and silk drapes. As a result, the chest-high underskirts became the most exciting and moving outfit in the Tang Dynasty and even in the entire Chinese clothing history.
The underskirt is one of the earliest and most basic clothing forms in the history of Chinese clothing. Starting from the Warring States Period with physical evidence, and finally the "shaving of hair and changing clothes" in the late Ming and early Qing Dynasties, it is the most basic form of traditional Han clothing.
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