The 20th Century The Twenties And Thirties, Clothing

The change of trappings can reflect the atmosphere of an era, style and features of people and the tremendous change of social surroundings during special period. Peking, as one of the ancient capitals, the change of trappings in it during 1920s and 1930s can embody more about the sudden change of productive condition, social prevailing fashion and social psychology during special historical phase. The traditional system of dressing began to be jumbled from the last stage of Qing Dynasty, and it was broken along with the foundation of Min Guo.'The old system was broken, but the new system hadn't established yet.'Therefore, Peking, and even the whole country enter into an age of disordered dressing. After 1930s, trappings became steady-going gradually. During this historical epoch, the change of Peking trappings presents a kind of that those new and old, oriental and occidental elements co-exist in the form of trappings representation, and people went with the stream and were blind in the choosing of trappings, and at the same time, they had a dense conservatism. Those factors which affect the change of trappings are various, such as, the driving of the active and exoteric new social trend of thought, and also, the reservation of conservative force to the tradition, and simultaneously, the influence of the fixed social structure which had settled for a long time in cities. On the whole, at this time, it was not a very active change process of trappings in Peking. It was forced by the strong command of temporal government o driven by the swim of Shanghai. The existing of plentiful traditional components induced that there was negative equation and inertia colour, and it was short of immanence motivity of independence renovating in the aspect of trappings. Under the background of informationization and global economical gleichschaltung, discussing the variance of Peking trappings of 1920s and 1930s has definitely reference and praxis meaning for treating the'colonization'of trappings and the problem of Occidental culture spread to orient as well as how to establish the systems of trappings and clothing life of our country.