As the saying goes, "Dress and eat and measure your belongings." Clothing, food, shelter, clothing ranked first, which shows the importance of clothing for human beings. This is true in modern society, and it is also true in ancient times. The costumes of the Song Dynasty are a pearl in the development of the history of clothing, and one of the most prominent features is slimming.
Zhao Guoyin "yellow robe plus body", became the founding emperor of the Song Dynasty, re-established the clothing system, and there were as many as twenty-eight kinds of clothing belts. The yellow robe became a special item of the emperor, and no one else was allowed to wear it, even if it was a big rebellion. Therefore, the princes and ministers must wear various brocade robes according to their respective grades.
The wind crown of the Empress of the Song Dynasty is beautiful, and it is decorated with jewelry, and some of them are coiled with gold and silver wire to form a story of the Queen Mother's life sacrifice, which is equivalent to moving a drama to the head. Casual clothes for aristocratic women were fashionable and slender, and a coat that resembled a modern small sleeve on the outside of a skirt was popular. The color of the clothes is very distinct; the pattern of the clothes is more beautiful and lively.
Compared with the Tang Dynasty, the makeup and clothing of women in the Song Dynasty underwent subversive changes. In the Tang Dynasty, the trend of taking fullness as beauty, advocating strong and bright clothing colors to pursue novelty and curiosity, tolerance and openness, is gone forever. Replaced by a new style of fresh simplicity, elegance and nature. With her authentic makeup, slim figure, and close-fitting tailoring, she shows the original beauty of women.
It is human nature to love beauty. Song Dynasty women's tunic skirts, plus technical cloth is the most fashionable dress for young women, but the concept of clothing is many, such as shirts, jackets, plackets, vests are tops, the form is also wide and narrow, sleeveless, long sleeves and short sleeves, the wearing method also has clothes inside the skirt outside the skirt, the so-called most fashionable here, that is, "narrow thin shirt", plus fluttering long skirt and technical cloth, fully reflect the beauty of the body and the charm of the clouds.
Song Dynasty women love to decorate beads and arrange flowers. Beads are adorned with pins, hairpins and hairpins. Jewelry is mostly made in the shape of phoenixes, mandarin ducks, birds or cicadas, moths and butterflies, or as plums, peaches, chrysanthemums, peonies and other flower shapes. The materials are gold, silver, jade, jadeite, etc., and the flowers are more silk flowers.
In the Song Dynasty, women used pearls as jewelry, that is, hair ornaments inlaid with pearls. The makeup techniques of Tang Dynasty women dotting on their faces are now difficult to see. They also like to wear all kinds of gowns, and even the singers wear a long coat. The close-fitting tailored dress sets off the graceful figure and completely changes the fashion of Tang Dynasty ladies to be beautiful with wide fat.
The costumes of the Song people inherited the system of the Sui and Tang dynasties, and the three dynasties of the Yuan, Ming and Qing dynasties after the Song Dynasty, on the basis of the Costumes of the Song People, were transformed according to their needs, forming a "new" series of costumes. In this long river of history, the costumes of the Song people play a role in inheriting the past and enlightening the future. Modern clothing has absorbed and borrowed the patterns and craftsmanship of traditional clothing.
Traditional clothing patterns are an important design element of modern clothing. Give new forms and connotations to traditional patterns, and incorporate modern fashion design elements, through direct or indirect ways, apply them to design works. The costume patterns of the Song Dynasty are exquisite and beautiful, and there are more flowers and birds, tuanhua, cloud patterns, turtle patterns and clouds. Designers summarize by refining, so that modern clothing has a more sense of the times.
The use of process elements. Traditional clothing techniques are rich and colorful, including hand, weaving, printing and dyeing, painting, embroidery, hollowing, pleats, stitching, hemming, yarn and so on. Like the thousand pleated skirt process that appeared in the Song Dynasty palace, and the ornamentation on the skirt is colorful, and the pleats are also an important processing method for modern clothing design.