Alternative Functions Neglected By Costumes

Present-day

The industry is especially developed, famous brand products are dazzling, and the mass media often broadcast attractive fashion shows.

The most profitable ones are probably rich businessmen who are rich in trade. They have a strong economic foundation and can enjoy the fashionable and expensive clothes that can easily reach thousands of yuan.

Business people may not have thought that their predecessors did not choose the freedom of dress today.

The status of ancient merchants was at the end of the "four people". Although they had more money than farm workers, they were restricted in their dress.

Liu Bang, who was born in the rascals and became an emperor, did not forget to return to his hometown. He felt uncomfortable when he saw that the businessman was dressed in luxury. He ordered that the "Jia people should not be clothed in beauty, beauty, and joy." in today's words, they should not wear clothes of fine silk, wool and light gauze.

In fact, Liu Bang's regulations are not "innovative", and the deprivation of clothing freedom is not just merchants.

In the long feudal era, power has strict rules for people's clothing. Costumes are people's status symbols and become people's hierarchical symbols.

According to "Shang Shu", as early as more than four thousand years ago, from the time when our ancestor was regarded as the king of ancient times and "Shun Ming De De Yu Di", there were "twelve chapters", namely twelve patterns. The clothes of the emperor can be used in twelve patterns, the princes eight, the Qing six, the doctors four, and the scholars can only two, while the civilians are not allowed to have decorations, but only in "white clothes".

The regulations are strict and hierarchical, and no one is allowed to overstep them.

Since then, all previous dynasties have been wearing different materials, colors, styles and designs according to different places of honor and distinction.

Yellow and dragon robes are exclusively used by emperors, and overstepping is a form of treason. Zhu Zi has become a high official in order to be a valuable official, but he can only use his purple clothes.

"No one can't take his clothes, so Shun Li Ye" (after Han Shu) is precisely because the clothing is the external representation of the rank, the clothing has become the human's reference, "Qingyi" is the handmaiden, "the cloth clothing" is the populace, "Zhu purple" is the high official.

Clothing is a product created by people in the long term evolution. It is used to protect the sun from the cold, cover up the body and cover the eyes, and express it in the academic language. It has three functions: practicality, ethics and beautification.

In the era of imperial rule, dress became a class label that people could not refuse. It became a functional symbol of the loss of equal dignity.

This alternative function of clothing is undoubtedly the alienation of its basic functions and the blasphemy of its basic functions.

Today, most of us are comfortable with food and clothing. The beautifying function of clothing dominates the choice of clothes, or gorgeous, or simple, or time keeping, or conservative. Different costumes appeal to different aesthetic tastes.

If anyone else takes clothes, he thinks.

The value of the body is doubled, and plain clothes are poor and impoverished. That is the unfashionable vulgar idea.