Yi people's dress

By Rita

In my impression, the clothes of the yi nationality are colorful and diversified. Women's clothes are usually made up of three parts.One is the coat, the other is the pants or the skirt and the headdress. And jacket is made up of many parts.There is a main clothing structure, decorated with silver line then it sleeve is made up of many colors into the forms of design, looks very beautiful. Then there is the belt, which is usually decorated with colorful lines and has some beautiful suspenders in the middle. Sometimes, the pants is simple.Scarf is like normal han pants, and also on trouser legs embroidered patterns that oneself like. Headwear is worn in some places but not in others, and most of the people I know do not wear headwear. Men's clothing is simpler than women's except for a waistcoat, which is then embroidered with the patterns they like and sewed on the clothes with coins as buttons. The color of the clothes chosen by the older generation is usually black, while the younger generation will usually choose the more colorful color.

Generally speaking, the color of women's clothes will choose vermilion, dark black or deep blue. Black is considered to be the symbol of the earth. Blue represents the sky and freedom. Young women will usually choose pink pure white or light blue.Pink represents the youthful spirit of young people. White represents pure and simple national customs.In the past, people's clothes are usually pure silver, but now most of them use aluminum jewelry. Because it's expensive to do it all in silver, not everyone can afford it. Now the choice of aluminum jewelry more than the previous silver ornaments,because aluminum is more lightweight and its price of most people can also accept. And the embroidery on the clothes will be the sun, moon, clouds, waves, rainbows, all kinds of flowers and so on.

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