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