Guests Display Authentic "Yangzhou Flavor".

　　 Hart and Tang dynasties The Chinese style costumes are yellow, green, orange, lotus and red, and their faces are lined with patterns of dragons and Phoenix. The left breast is full of peony flowers and lotus flowers. On the theme forum of the 2011 world canal famous city fair and the first global design City Summit held in Yangzhou on the day before yesterday, Chinese and foreign urban guests dressed in traditional Chinese ethnic costumes collectively appeared and attracted numerous eyeballs.

Jade and embroidery

Perfect fusion of Yangzhou characteristics

Every Expo will be a guest of the famous canal city in China and abroad. Elaborate The production of a set of traditional Chinese style and local characteristics of Yangzhou clothing. This year's clothing, in addition to maintaining the traditional Han and Tang clothing features, but also incorporates some modern elements, and in various designs and details everywhere reflect the characteristics of Yangzhou.

The Paeonia lactiflora and lotus patterns are integrated into the costume design and different patterns are designed according to the difference between men and women. Jade and embroidery are Yangzhou's unique traditional handicrafts, and have been properly designed into the clothing of this year's Expo. The neckline of each dress is decorated with a jade bead as a button, which symbolizes "jade and Yangzhou work". All the designs on the clothes are embroidered by embroidery stitches from Yangzhou embroidery.

Tailor-made

At least 10 hands per piece.

The key to the production of general clothes is the two points of tailoring and sewing. For these garments, whether they choose cloth or embroidery, or tailoring, sewing and later stage, are all the top priority. Each set clothes From cloth to final manufacture, at least 8 procedures, 10 hands.

According to the introduction, in order to ensure that the city guests of Chinese and foreign canal cities wear well, the organizing committee will contact the cities ahead of time to know the size of the guests, and then tailor them. Besides, the clothing of the city guests is yellow, green, orange, lotus and red. These colors are not made of ready-made fabrics, which requires dyeing and weaving in the field. It is customary for garment manufacturers to set the cloth at least 1000 meters, but the number of costumes required by the Expo is only about 200 meters, so many companies in the field are reluctant to take orders. To this end, the organizing committee has done a lot of work to convince the foreign fabric companies to make an exception in order to dye the fabric according to the requirements.

Clothing experience

Workers take the initiative to work overtime.

During the interview, the reporter realized that in order to complete the work within the prescribed time clothing The task force, the Organizing Committee and the clothing production enterprises specially selected dozens of experienced teachers with the most conscientious work and meticulous manual work to shoulder the heavy responsibility.

"Some of the clothes we make are for foreigners, but usually we seldom involve European clothes." A teacher who participated in the production said that for this reason, they had time to study the size and cutting proportion from other European Code clothes. Within a few days, they produced nearly perfect European costumes from their hands.

For the clothing experience, the head of a local clothing company in Yangzhou is quite impressed now. She told reporters that at ordinary times, the company had a regular commuting time, and almost all workers would arrive at the clothing workshop one or two hours earlier than usual in the month after making the costumes for the sports fair. After the working hours, if she hadn't reminded her, none of the workers would have realized that it was too late.

"Everyone said that the sports fair is a major event in Yangzhou and a great event for every Yangzhou people. They are very proud to have played for the sports fair. If the organizing committee gives them such an important clothing task, they must try their best to do their best. The official said, because standing for a long time, she saw that some workers' legs were swollen, but no one complained or even squeak.

Strict requirement

Manual embroidery of local embroidered mother

"Each embroidery line is smaller than the hair. The size of each garment is not allowed to have more than 0.5 centimeters of error. If the clothes are ironed, no more than 1.5 cm of the pond will be allowed. The stitch density must be the finest, and the button must be tight and hard." The head of the garment company reported more than 10 inspection standards for guests' clothing at the same time.

According to the staff of the organizing committee, the costumes of the guests were all made of bright satin silk, not only with high gloss, but also very bright colors. The most eye-catching of all the costumes is Paeonia lactiflora and lotus patterns on the left chest. Yang embroidery has always been famous for its flowers, birds and landscapes. However, because of its time-consuming and laborious efforts, today's clothing embroidery is usually done by machine. But the pattern that is embroidered by machine will not exceed 6 colors at most, and the back must be covered with cloth or paper. This will affect the mechanism of cloth and make the area embroidered on clothes look very hard and not stick. "

In order to make Chinese and foreign city guests wear the clothes with the most distinctive Yangzhou characteristics, the organizing committee has hired dozens of local embroidered nangs in Yangzhou to make hand-made patterns such as peony and lotus. "Although it takes only 5 to 6 days for each garment to be embroidered, it takes only two to five days. But the color change of hand embroidered pattern is natural and highly simulated, and the color can reach infinity. "

Honored guests

Fold your luggage before entering the box.

Michel Doll, the city's guest of honor this year, is the Minister of economics of Offenbach, Germany. In 2009, he came to Yangzhou for the first time as a city guest of the sports fair. As soon as he got the guest costume of this year's Expo, he told reporters through translation: "I have another such dress, but the pattern is bamboo. I was told that this is a Chinese Tang suit. So my traditional Chinese style and modern clothes are very popular with my family and I still cherish them in the wardrobe of German home. It looks like I'll have another modern Tang suit in my wardrobe this year. "

The translator also told reporters yesterday that the mayor of Berne, Switzerland, Alexander Chipet and his party had left Yangzhou yesterday. When she was packing her luggage, she saw Alexander Chipet carefully fold the costume of the Expo and put it into the box. "In the heart of Beijing and Hangzhou, I also saw that he took many pictures in this dress, and he would sort out his collar and coat before taking pictures."