Sorry I got all excited about the movie – your hanfu is amazing – I love the greens! I love that movie! Thanks, and yes, I saw that translation, which has nothing to do with the Chinese movie title! In English I think it’s called House of Flying Daggers – I have no idea if that comes close to the original title. Mulan may not have been able to constrain its fashions to a single millennium, but at least the characters weren’t all wearing qipaos! It looks good, and I really enjoyed your overview of Chinese historical fashion through the lens of Mulan! I also enjoyed seeing the painting with the musicians–it was interesting to me how much the flute in the middle resembles western flutes. Just goes to show, if you find something of interest to hang all the other knowledge on, learning gets so much easier! It certainly makes things easier to sew, though. And now I have the “I’ll Make A Man Out of You” song stuck in my head. Luckily, now I have a pink hanfu and I can even wear it to work.

And I especially love that you know exactly wear you’re opting out of historical accuracy. I love all your research! I love the outfit you’re making and I can’t wait to see the final version! I just needed something to hold it closed so I could see what it would look like. I really like the green and a mulan/loki mash up sounds really fun! I’m discovering that I really like shades of green. It looks very much like it does on Cecily! Yet, in places like Wuzhen – where the local travellers have already returned – the tourism companies are hoping that incredible sites like theirs will eventually be too much for foreigners to resist as well. Until my Eowyn dress, I hadn’t ever really worn that color much! I barely know anything about American history and there’s so so much less of it to know. I totally remember my parents watching those dramas when I was little, so it never occurred to me that people who don’t do the same might not know that qipao are not the traditional Chinese clothing. It’s funny, I know I had to learn all of this history for Chinese school as a teenager, but I didn’t remember any of it before I started this project!

It wasn’t until I started doing research for this project that I found out there were hanfu revival groups! There need to be more people making costumes from all over the world! I need to get back onto my project which is running significantly later than yours did. I need to look up that video! How does it look on? From what I can see there seems to be a wide underbelt and then a narrow tie that’s quite long over the top. Shuhe’s top is a slim Ru with narrow cuffs to facilitate hand movement, and bottom pants also very tightly wrapped and tied with a cloth belt. The primary components include the Ru (shirt), Shan (robe), hanfu modern and Ku (pants). 33 Other forms of court robes in Ming dynasty worn by nobles, officials and their wives (such as the bufu, i.e. robe with mandarin square) also used ocean waves patterns in the form of concentric semicircles (woshui) as clothing ornaments. In women garments of the Ming dynasty, the standup collar with gold and silver interlocking buckles became one of the most distinctive and popular form of clothing structure; it became commonly used in women’s clothing reflecting the conservative concept of Ming women’s chastity by keeping their bodies covered and due to the climate changes during the Ming dynasty (i.e. the average temperature was low in China).

This form of jingyi continued to be worn until the early Han dynasty. The Han Chinese thus adopted certain Manchu elements when modifying their Ming dynasty changshan, such as by slimming their changshan, by adopting the pianjin collar of the Manchu, and by using buttons and loops at the neck and sides. Wakeman, Frederic E. The Great Enterprise: The Manchu Reconstruction of Imperial Order in Seventeenth-Century China. When the Manchu established the Qing dynasty, they incorporated roundels with dragons in their official court dress. Some features of Tang Clothing carried into the Song Dynasty Such as court customs. Today’s hanfu offer many variations while respecting the customs of their ancestors. Explore the typical styles, categories, and variations of Hanfu across different dynasties and social statuses. These two versions of Shenyi were interchangeable between sexes as there were no strict emperor-made rules about womenswear and menswear during the earlier dynasties. Every part of shenyi has the attributes of an instrument, which gives the text multiple moral meanings. Similarly to the shenyi worn from Zhou to Han dynasties, the shenyi designed in Song dynasty followed the same principles.

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