①Just the founding of the country period - the old and the new, revolutionary characteristics
When the new China was just founded, people still retained the style of the Republic of China period on the clothing. Urban citizens generally wore robes with side closures and buttons, and women wore cheongsams. Rural men generally wore Chinese-style button-down short shirts and long pants, and women wore short shirts and long pants with the left placket, and some wore a long skirt. At that time, the fabrics used to make clothes were mostly machine woven "foreign cloth", coarse cotton and linen. In addition, suits and Zhongshan suits were also popular. In his later years, Sun often wore clothes that stood out in the middle of robes and coats and suits, and people called this kind of clothes Zhongshan Suit and linked its style with Sun's revolutionary beliefs and principles, such as the four pockets that symbolized the four dimensions of the country, i.e., etiquette, righteousness, integrity and shame; the three buttons on the sleeves represented the three nationalisms of the nation, the civil rights and the people's livelihood, which made Zhongshan Suit become a symbol of the National Revolution, and in fact, the KMT had already defected to the revolution. The KMT has long since defected to the revolution.
After the founding of New China, dressing was tightly linked to the revolution. Suits and cheongsams were seen as bourgeois affectations, and they gradually disappeared from people's lives for nearly 20 years. Zhongshan and Lenin outfits became the common choice of the people. At the Founding Ceremony, when the leaders of the new China made their first collective appearance on the Tiananmen Square, the image of Mao Zedong and the leaders around him in Zhongshan suits caught the world's attention. Men wear Zhongshan suits to look dignified and spiritual. The Zhongshan suit was very orthodox, with a lot of buttons on the top and four flat pockets, but the style was too dull and lacked innovation. Later on, it evolved into the people's clothing with some improvements. It was then that a double-breasted uniform from the Soviet Union, the "Lenin dress," became popular among working women. Named after Lenin, who often wore it before and after the October Revolution, it was a suit with an open collar, double-breasted, with three buttons each, and a cloth belt around the waist. This clothing later became countless Chinese women most revered, favored "fashion", in which the revolutionary female cadres almost everyone must wear Lenin suit, to show their revolutionary.
②Reform and opening up before - simple monotonous
People in the 50's advocate labor is the most glorious, simple is fashion. Young girls fell in love with men's overalls and plaid shirts, and in 1956, when the three major reforms began to take place, people's lives got better and better, and the colors of fashion became more colorful, from blue and gray. The dress "Bragi", imported from the Soviet Union, became the most popular item of clothing. The popularity of the bragi dress in China was attributed to a Soviet leader. During a visit to China, this leader suggested that Chinese clothing did not fit the image of a large socialist country, and that "women should all wear flowery clothes to reflect the thriving face of socialism". As a result, brightly colored braggy dresses became the brightest scenery in large and medium-sized cities.
In the era of thrift and hard work, most of the beautiful garments were home made. Handy girls and mothers cut their own clothes according to the pattern in the pictorials to make the uniforms fit and the cotton shirts look beautiful. At this time, the zhongshan suit has become the most solemn and most common clothing in China, and at that time, having a set of woolen zhongshan suit is an enviable thing, while inserting a pen or even two pens in the upper right pocket of the zhongshan suit is a manifestation of knowledge and culture. Later, some people according to the characteristics of the suit, designed a more simple, bright style of "people's clothes", "youth" and "student". There is also a slightly improved suit, that is, the neckline will be open, the lapel is also from small to large, very popular among the people. At that time, Mao Zedong, the leader of **** and the country, especially liked to wear this style of Zhongshan suit. Later on, some people abroad called this style of Zhongshan Suit "Mao-style Zhongshan Suit". From then on, the popularity of the suit lasted for nearly 30 years.
The early 1960s was the most difficult period in the history of New China. Due to three years of natural disasters, cotton production was drastically reduced from 1959 to 1960, and cotton cloth was rationed at 21 feet per person. People buy clothing, cotton cloth and daily textiles are to cloth tickets, in order to save as much as possible, the standard for purchasing clothing is wear-resistant and resistant to spoils, gray, black, blue became the popular color of the street, a thousand of the same, the seasons are not divided into male and female clothing styles are also more passable. A cartoonist once graphically depicted the scene of "everyone in blue".
During the Cultural Revolution, owning a military uniform was the ideal of countless young people in those days. Teenagers liked to wear a grass-green uniform, a grass-green cap and a grass-green bag. At that time, this was a very extravagant and stylish outfit. Of course, hard work and simplicity were still the dominant fashion at that time. In order to show their own hard work and simplicity, some people even buy new clothes in the water to make old, or in the clothes that have not been damaged with a few patches. This kind of behavior seems to be quite ridiculous nowadays, but it prevailed for a while in the decade of the Cultural Revolution. The jingle at the time went like this: new three years, old three years, sewing and mending another three years ...... There was also a song that also floated in the streets and alleys of the early years of the country: hard work and thrift is our good tradition ah, the socialist construction can not be separated from, can not be separated from ......
But even with the single-color, single-colored clothes, there was no need for the old clothes to be patched.
But even in the single-color era, people's love of beauty will still be exposed, a photographer called this exposure "can not stop the spring light", the pursuit of this natural transfer of beauty, is an era left in the minds of the people a deep imprint.
③Since the reform and opening up - colorful, fashionable personality
Since the reform and opening up, the color and style of clothing is more diversified, and the fabric and texture have also changed a lot.
1980 was the third year of China's reform and opening up. With the development of the times, people's dress became richer and richer, and the colors became colorful from a single blue-gray. The domestic feature film Lushan Love, released at the time, became a favorite among young people. The long-lost love story, coupled with the novel fashion of the heroine in the movie, all gave rise to a refreshing feeling. The number of outfits she changed in the movie became a hot topic of discussion among young people at the time. During this period, it became fashionable to wear sunglasses, long hair, bell-bottom pants and bat shirts, which many people could not get used to seeing, but young people found a sense of individuality and self in them.
The first fashion modeling team in mainland China was formed in 1981, and although it was only enrolled under the name of "Fashion Advertising Art Performance Class," organizers were surprised when four times as many people signed up as expected. Three years later, the team visited Europe and caused a sensation. Western public opinion exclaimed: "Mao Zedong's children are wearing fashion!" The whirlwind of fashion from China brought the world a new image of openness.
In 1984, when the Chinese women's volleyball team won the "three consecutive titles" at the Los Angeles Olympics, sportswear became popular in Beijing. Brightly colored sportswear became the first choice of people who loved beauty. People wore sportswear almost everywhere, and it even became the school uniform for students and the factory uniform for workers.
In the 1990s, people's lives were transitioning to well-off, and their minds were more open. People's clothing in the rapid changes, dress for personality and versatility, it is difficult to use a style or color to summarize the fashion trend, emphasizing individuality, not chasing the popularity itself has become a fashion.
From the changes in clothing, we can see the progress of the times and people's inner concept of change. Changes in clothing is the premise of economic development, but also reflects the people's mindset with the change of the times and changes, from the previous "crowd" mentality to "the pursuit of individuality". The change in clothing is a manifestation of the improvement of people's quality of life.