Modern+Dress

Chinese Clothing Today [1]
Today, Fashion designers use a mixture of traditional and modern ideas to create new fashions. These new fashions also incorporate age-old motifs such as guardian deities, lions, and masks of Chinese opera characters. Chinese bronze is another source of printed, woven, embroidered, and applied design for clothes. Some of the distinctive designs include dragons, phoenixes, clouds, and lightning. Motifs from traditional Chinese painting also end up in woven or printed fashion designs. In modern society, men are seen at social occasions wearing the dignified and refined traditional Chinese long gown, and women often wear the ch'i-p'ao, a modified form of a traditional Ching Dynasty fashion, on formal occasions. The variations of height, length, width, and ornamentation of the collar, sleeves, skirt, and basic cut of this Oriental fashion are limitless. Many accessories such as macramé are used to decorate shoulders, bodices, pockets, seams, and openings of clothing, as well as belts, hair ornaments, and necklaces. Some successful examples of combinations of modern and traditional fashion elements are the modern bridal tiara, based on a Sung Dynasty design and the Hunan Province style of embroidered sash made in the traditional colors of pure red, blue, and green. From these examples, it can be seen how traditional Chinese dress is the foundation of modern fashion. However, the Chinese have also adopted many Western styles of clothing such as business suits and jeans.

Modern Dress with traditional features[2]
Contemporary Chinese clothing draws upon ancient elements of Chinese clothing traditions and seeks to reintroduce them in a revolutionary new way. Since symbolism has been a main feature of the Chinese culture you will find many modern Chinese fashion designers to make use of classic Chinese symbols in combination with modern trends. Chinese fashion designers have taken to the task of developing clothes for children and young people using classic Chinese symbols. You will be able to find a wide variety of modern Chinese clothing with symbols like good fortune, images of deities, opera characters, masks and dragons. The use of appliqué bronzes and designs from ancient times have come into popular use amongst the Chinese fashion designers of today. The incorporation of ancient motifs, embroidery patterns and weaving styles with modern fabrics has produced an interesting array of contemporary Chinese clothing. The use of the traditional macramé is also prevalent in modern Chinese clothing. This unique element is used for ornamental purposes. You will find modern Chinese clothing to be featuring the macramé on bodices, seams, pockets, borders and shoulders.



Integration with the world 's clothing
Nowadays, more and more things are connected with the world and the clothing is not expection. In china, the modern clothing usually are designed with the traditional features. However, in the daily life, there are still a large number of people would like to wear T-shirt, Skirt and Jeans and there still have a fashion style in the world with the common style. People are pursuing comfort and convenient, therefore, the T-shirt and Jeans become the most popular and fashion clothing style. Especially for the workers, they are professional and have to wear formal cloths. Thus, the modern Chinese clothing can be seen as global clothing style. There is a video show the professional dress for women: media type="youtube" key="cpMQLe2pCD0" height="315" width="420" Reference: [|http://polaris.gseis.ucla.edu/yanglu/ecc_culture_clothing.htm#color] [1] [] [2]

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