Stars look beautiful and godly in ancient costume. But release of BTS clips show casts trying to find cooling release while in the best and most beautiful ancient costume. Do you think you'll survive wearing full set, no adjustment or summer version, for a day? how about a couple hours for a month?
Hmmm. Looks in closet full of cosplay. Yes. I think I can handle a day in full historical costume. I’ve had to do it several times before. By that I mean dress up in full European historical costume and serve tea for a day as part of volunteering at a museum fundraiser. Not entirely fun, and the shoes are the worst, but doable when needed.
Ai-chan doesn't understand. What's so bad about ancient clothes? In some periods they had better fashion than our own time. Exhibit A Exhibit B Now, the Manchu era sucked for fashion, but they at least paved the way for the awesome qipao.
Totally, assuming you mean traditional clothes and not something from stone age. Also best part about traditional clothes is that girls look so beautiful in them.
Those are modern, romanticized, revamped, redesigned traditonal clothes, not truly historically accurate. And silk was luxury material, not for common clothes. Traditional folk clothes were more like these on countryside... Or like these in cities... Those were in 20th century. I leave it to your imagination what could have been before that. By the way, before 19th century, clothes were to be washed once every few weeks or months, by stamping on feet in a bucket or beaten with a stick by the stream, without soap...
This part is actually not true. While soap was regulated and taxed in 15th century up to the 18th century in Europe, they did use soap. Soap was a very important item for industrialized economy, so much so that they had to ration soaps because they couldn't produce enough to satisfy demands. In the middle ages, while European peasants did not have bars of soap, they did have wood ash, which they would use raw to clean themselves and their surroundings. The more well-off people would have bars of soap for their own use. There was no such restriction on China of any dynasty. Probably because China only went through industrialization after all the kinks were ironed out. Before that, their manufacturing were cottage industries where the soap could easily and reliably be sourced from their surroundings. After all, the basic ingredients of soap are simply ash and fat. The earliest recorded use of soap (in bar form) was during the Jin Dynasty where saponin was made into ingots and made as trade goods. But the Chinese already made use of a primitive form of soap since as early as Han Dynasty. Another form of laundry soap was used in the Song Dynasty was the feizao which is honey locust powder kneaded into orange-coloured balls. The word feizao is still being used today for soap. I don't know who you were talking to when you mentioned those clothes were revamped, but hanfu (Han clothing) does look like the first picture in my post. They didn't have cotton and silk would be rich people's cloth, but the same clothes would be made of hemp fibers and similar, which the Chinese did cultivate. The third picture was indeed revamp of the older Manchu Mandarin clothes, but it was based on Manchu. As for your first picture, that's not a common Chinese clothing and these people were Jurchens. If you had come into a Chinese town wearing these clothing, they'd have immediately idenfitied you as a barbarian (not necessarily savages, just belonging to a non-Chinese tribe).