Waistcoat Culture

In the Internet age, there is a language in the Internet age. Nowadays, when someone is using other people's mailboxes for correspondence, people say he is wearing someone else's vest. Chinese products have a foreign name and are also described as wearing "foreign waistcoat".

Attention, please. Waistcoat It should be quoted, because after all, it is not. But why it is used in this way illustrates the power of dress culture. It shows that clothing is closely related to people's life, so that clothes can be described more vividly, more vividly and well understood.

Why do we need to use "vest" instead of "shirt" and "here"? leather shoes The key is that the waistcoat is easy to wear. The staff of the international securities trading hall are wearing red vests, postmen wearing green vests in some areas, prisoners wearing yellow vests, and TV cameraman and film directors wearing a hunting suit of warm waistcoat, coarse cloth and pockets. In short, waistcoat is very convenient to wear, not too hot when heated, and cold when cold.

This kind of clothes without collar and sleeveless is called "crotch" in the early years. "Shiming and releasing clothes" is called "crotch, one of them is chest and one back." That is to say, this clothing only protects the front and rear hearts, but it can be long and short, and does not block the limbs.

For thousands of years, this garment is also known as the "vest", which refers directly to the covering part, or the "shoulder", which cuts off the clothes part of the arm other than the shoulder. So why is it called vest? Actually, it comes from the armor of a war horse. The armour of the horse is somewhat like a European Knight's armor, with its head and neck showing only its eyes and nose, some of which are mainly bodily, like a raincoat on horseback. In any case, it has nothing to do with limbs. From this, people like to call the shape of the dress into vest.

There was a samurai in Wei and Jin Dynasties. Armor The name is "crotch armor", that is the shoulder type. In this way, the main parts of the body can be protected, and the arms can be unfettered, leaving many images on the pottery figurine at that time.

In the Ming Dynasty, women loved to wear armor. The characteristics of the nail were that they did not protect their upper arms, but they actually covered their lower limbs. Because the nail is very long, the hem is always knee to ankle and even to the ground. In those days, women wore elegant nails, no matter what they were. In the Ming Dynasty, the beautiful women were tall and slim. They better dressed the female figure, so they looked small.

In the Qing Dynasty, such a sleeveless garment was called a vest, and its address might be related to the immediate nation. Men used to wear robes in the past, and love vests in gowns and gowns in spring and autumn. Because of its popularity, the style is also rich. One of the most distinctive features is called Pipa lapel, that is, the edge of the front is not straight or straight. The vertical side shaped city walls, together with the customary wide margins, were unique to the Qing Dynasty.

In addition to the pipa lapel, there is also a type of waistcoat, which is horizontal in front of the collar. This waistcoat has a special use, that is, wearing a vest with a single word in the leather robe of a man riding a horse, walking and walking hot. If he takes off the big leather robe, it is too cold on the open grassland. If you want to take off the vest and take off the fur robe first, you will catch cold easily. How to do it? The advantage of a single waistcoat is that you can put your hand into your fur robe, untie the loop of the one button, and then you can easily pull the front piece out. Pulling out the back piece and pulling it out again, this is indeed a unique invention of the nomadic costume creation, which is directly related to the climatic conditions in its area.

Women in the Qing Dynasty wore waistcoat, mostly for girls or housekeepers. There were many records in the dream of Red Mansions: for example, the girl in the twenty-fourth chapter wrote Jia Ma's mandarin duck, "wearing a water red satin jacket, a Satin Vest and a white crepe scarf." In the forty-sixth time, the girl who wrote Baoyu wrote "silver red coat, Blue Satin Vest and white satin skirt." Once again, Jia Ma had told Fengjie: "look for it again, I'm afraid there's green." If I sometimes take it out, I will send two of the Liu's relatives and make a tent. I'll hang up the rest and add some clothes to the inside, and make some vest for the girls. In addition, the ninety-first girl who wrote Jingui, "Bao Bao Chan", was wearing a piece of gold border lute and a small tight body. It was wearing a piece of pine and green half new sweat towel. It was not wearing a skirt. It was showing pomegranate red flower pants and a pair of new embroidered red shoes. The "lute skirt" is also a vest.

Waistcoat, vest and shawl are a special kind of casual wear in the history of human clothing.