A Study Of The Urban Trappings During The Period Of Republic Of China

The period of republic of china was the important one which the Chinese city clothes and ornaments developed. It ended china's old system and tradition that the status was classified by clothes and ornaments.People tend to dress freely. With the blending of traditional Chinese clothing and non-traditional costumes, oriental civilization and Western cultures, under the complex social and culture background of Republic of China's first year, Chinese clothes and ornaments entered a "disorder" time of dressing. It formed the phase of tradition and unconventional blending together, so at that time, Chinese clothes looked plentiful and colorful,even some what sightless and disordered.Until the 1920s, clothes in sculpt and pattern tended to be stable. People got rid of feudal influence with all one's strength, and they gradually accepted the influence of Western clothing culture, on the other hand they cannot get rid of the traditional clothing completely, in this case, cheongsam and Chinese tunic that merging of eastern and western characteristics emerged and stereotyped. At that time, business suit prevailed. Western-style clothes eastward did not happen accidently, there were profound social and historical reasons:It ended china's old system and tradition that the status was classified by clothes and ornaments, traditional clothes' humdrum color got colorful, western clothes spread rapidly; feudalism economy gradually turns into capital commercial economic, macro western clothing and foreign advanced technology and tool influenced slopwork industry, then many clothes companies appeared and promoted the consumption of clothes; newspaper, films and fashion shows publicized trappings, so people started to chase fashion. At the same time, the contact with west made clothes inosculate very popular, accompanied with the unbalance of district and estate, fetishism, and so on. On this basis, traditional taste had changed, the idea that inosculation with west had formed, trappings became individual and pluralistic.