The Comparision Of Chinese And Western Women’s Clothing Structure In 1910s

1910s was the transitional period that traditional women’s suit was transforming to modern women’s suit. The model and structure of women’s suit in this period clearly reflected that Chinese culture and western culture were learning from each other; war, economy, education,cultural change and other subjective and objective factors also influenced the development direction of Chinese and western women’s suit. This study takes the Chinese and western women’s major daily clothing categories as research subject and divides the women’s suit, a big category, into underwear one-piece clothing, two-piece clothing, pantsuit and other clothing,from which the study selects Dudou and corset, robe and one-piece dress, jacket dress and suit,Chinese traditional pant and western pant for thorough study. The paper studies the social background of Chinese and western women’s suit development in 1910 s and the overall clothing culture characteristics under the mutual influence of Chinese and western culture. Through measuring and analyzing a huge amount of real objects, the paper summarizes the development process, clothing shapes, structure characteristics as well as the technical beauty in the clothing structure of each category of Chinese and western women’s suit. At the end of each chapter is the analysis of similarities and differences of Chinese and western women’s suit and discussion of the subjective and objective factors that influenced Chinese and western women’s suit development from various angles. The paper selects the 4 pieces of ready-made garment in《Patterns of Fashion》to be duplicated and analyzes profoundly the real motive behind western structure and forms the theory system about the essential characteristic of western structure in the transitional period of modern women’s suit development.The research showed that Chinese women’s suit structure in 1910 s was generally the cross-shaped completely planar structure and the western women’s suit structure was the curveand sharding three-dimensional structure. During the war, these two kinds of structures were used by each other for reference. So the Chinese women’s suit was tending to be the skinny curve style and the Western women’s suit was developing to the linear style. But there was no essential change in both structures. This article gives rational consideration and discussion on the tailoring patterns and the structure of key parts of Chinese and western suit, and then by comparing and analyzing the open-close ways of Chinese and western suit, this article expresses the shows the wisdom in the western and Chinese women’s suit structure. The comparative research on western and Chinese women’s suit structure during that period by dating back the original and knowing fully all information is at least the supplement to the theoretical part of the comparison system of western and Chinese suit structure, and at the same time it is also expected to provide new thought for the inheritance and innovation of traditional clothing.