White is the favorite clothing color of the Korean people, symbolizing purity, goodness, nobility, and holiness, so the Korean people have been known as the white nation since ancient times, calling themselves white compatriots. The color of clothes worn by women is colorful and unconventional, but the traditional national style of short clothes and long skirts has remained unchanged for a long time, because it conforms to the aesthetic psychology of Korean women and fully reflects their meekness, goodness and industriousness and simplicity of their virtues. The structure of the Korean national costume is self-contained, and the straight lines of the blouse from the shoulder to the head of the sleeve and the curves of the collar, hemline and sleeve belly form a combination of curves and straight lines, reflecting the characteristics of the ancient robes of the white nation.
The preference for white color typically reflects the cleanliness of the Korean people. The first migrant settlers were mostly clothed in hemp cloth woven with thread and hemp, which was rough and cool in summer but not warm in winter. But winter does not keep warm. Later, with the continuous improvement of weaving techniques, hemp cloth more and more weaving better, not only fine grain and few blemishes, the color also by rinsing from yellow to white. In quite a long period of time, hemp cloth and soil cloth have been the main fabrics of Korean traditional clothing. The Korean costume is perfect only when there are ornaments. Such as beautifully embroidered hair bands, embroidered purses, tassels and light-colored boat-shaped shoes. A tassel often hangs under the bow tie of traditional Korean clothing, which is decorated with a piece of jade carving or a small silver sword with a ring loop and a long silk tassel hanging down below, echoing with the clothing and forming an overall beauty.
The decorations of the Korean people can be roughly divided into headdresses and waist pendants. Headdresses mainly include hairbands, hairpins and hairpins. Women use more headdresses than men and they are very gorgeous. Waist ornaments include belts, purses, makeup knives, playthings and so on, many of which are very exquisite handicrafts.
Korean women's headdresses are simple, and girls keep short hair, unmarried girls wear a long braid, and after marriage, they pull their hair behind their heads, and except for colorful headbands at the root and end of the braid and metal pins inserted into the buns of their hair, they do not have any other accessories, and they are simple and generous.
The Korean people have a peace-loving and vigorous character, and their national culture is deep and active, sentimental and optimistic. Especially on holidays and birthdays of the elderly, they put on the traditional national costumes of the Koreans, sing and dance, and *** with the celebration, which has become the iconic "landscape" of the Korean nation. Boat-shaped shoes are unique to the Korean people. They are made of artificial leather or rubber and are soft and comfortable. Men's shoes are usually black, while women's shoes are mostly white, sky blue, and green. In addition, there is a kind of seven-colored blouse in the Korean costume, which is made of seven-colored satin, symbolizing happiness and light, and is usually worn during gatherings and celebrations. The Koreans wore wooden clogs and leather clogs in the early days, and then grass shoes, hemp shoes and rubber shoes appeared, and rubber or leather shoes were commonly worn.
The hats of Korean men used to be mainly black hats. The black hat is cylindrical at the top of the head and has a wide brim to block the sunlight. Women also wore black hats, mostly painted with beautiful flowers and birds, but the common use was still the headscarf. Nowadays, young men wear duck-tongued hats and middle-aged and elderly people wear felt hats. Hookback shoes are traditional women's footwear. The Korean people, who have lived between the white mountains and black waters since ancient times, are a people who can sing and dance well, and belong to the cross-border ethnic group, so the hookback shoes are popular among the Korean people in China, South Korea and North Korea.
The Korean people have always advocated plain white, clothes, shoes and ornaments are mostly white, simple and generous, extremely rich in national characteristics. In ancient times, the Koreans wore straw shoes and wooden clogs, and later developed shallow hook-back shoes. The shallow mouth of the hook-back shoes made them easy to put on and take off, and they were used in both rain and shine. After the popularization of rubber shoes, white shoes made of rubber became the pets of Korean men and women. The shoes shown here are in the shape of a boat, with chic shapes and smooth lines, and their colors are not limited to pure white. Among them, all red hook back shoes for satin fabric, embroidered butterfly flower pattern, hook head for blue, for wedding occasions.