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New China'S Clothing Culture: A Thin Line

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From the founding of new China to the reform and opening up in the late 70s, Chinese people lived in a state of insufficient material and clothing and food.

The clothes and shoes of family members are all made by hand by hand and housewife. This is not the manual fashion that people purposely pursue today, but the special "normal" or the reality that must be faced in that era.

Of course, there is also a special warmth in the helplessness, which is new to the times.

When the mechanical age, the laser age and the Microsoft era passed quickly, people recalled the handmade products, which in itself illustrated the practical ability and beautiful artistic imagination that human beings should have.

Several scenes have always been in my mind, and I still think of it as a movie.

At that time there were five or six children in a family.

To make clothes for a big child, we should consider letting him wear it for several more years. Two, we should consider his younger brother and sister.

As a result, buy

clothes

Or do clothes, never dare to pursue an appropriate body.

Of course, try to grow as long as possible.

The skirt is easy to handle. When it comes to the foot, it can be used for three or four years of growing children until they are short to the knees. Though the whole body is out of proportion, it is quite reasonable.

According to this logic, the children's clothes on the street are not very big, and the sleeves are sewn in half a foot (later slowly). They are small and miserable. Their jackets are short and their trousers are hanging over their ankles.

But clothes are always good, which is much better than that of the poor in the old society.

Sewing under the lamp is of affection, and the hardship of the mother is the size of the family.

Clothes and clothes

Neat.

In the late 50s and early 60s, there were still a few people who had sewing machines. Besides, Chinese cotton padded jacket, cotton trousers, shoes and socks were hand sewing.

So many housewives spend quite a lot of time making clothes for their families.

I remember the scene clearly: the ordinary incandescent light bulb, under the dim light, the grandmother and mother sat cross legged on the Kang.

That kind of tight stitches, slit, and impatience are very common with the slow pace of social development.

Besides, the mother and son are sewing and pulling together, and they are also beautiful and warm.

The lamp with a lampshade usually hangs in the center of the house and does needlework, and pulls it to the Kang head and fastened it to the nail on the wall.

I would also like to squeeze around, snuggle up to my mother and watch them do needlework.

Kittens are more fond of making fun, paper balls and spools.

Turning into a kitten is out of sight.

I play for a while and play with all kinds of buttons in the box.

On winter nights, it is dark outside and snowflakes are dancing gently; sometimes the north wind calls out, and the branches of the old trees shake fiercely outside the window.

The fire in the house is booming. A kettle of water makes it boil, and the white water vapor diffuses.

When the cat was lying at the fireside, it did not move, and there was a slight snoring.

I feel calm and warm.

It was late, and my mother fell asleep after not looking at me for a while.

For girls at that time, the first practice of the needlework is to make up for the addition of embroidery.

Socks

。

Socks are made of cotton thread and worn in a few days.

So whenever there is a family, there is no one who doesn't buy it.

It is made of wood, and the bottom of a flat bottom is close to the foot. Because of the different sex and age of a family, it is necessary to put in at least a few old sizes of different sizes.

Sometimes, in order to postpone the wear time of the socks, the diligent housewives will not have their feet on the new socks, so they should first take the similar coloured cloth heads to make the socks strong and durable.

In the spring and autumn day, the sun shone brightly, and the wooden clips were placed outside the door of the family. The housewives stuck all kinds of paste that could not be patched (or not strong cloth), and the paste was boiled with white flour and boiled water.

In short, stick to zero for the whole, become a layer of thick cloth, name day "clip".

At that time, I did not know abstract or folk art, but sometimes I was very curious to see that the cloth blocks were very neat and regular, even though they were different in color and large in size.

My grandmother is a good sticky trap.

When the clip was dry, I helped my grandmother peel it off, and then cut it out one after another. The number of shoes used was thin, and the number of layers used for men's shoes was as thick as possible.

Like my brother playing football every day, shoes are especially expensive. Shoes are less than a week old.

Each layer should be glued with white cloth on the bottom of the shoe. The next layer is full of sticky cloth and wrapped together so that several layers can be folded to the sole.

I didn't take the burden of housework like a housewife at that time, but I often took several pins from the needles.

When grandmother was at the sole of the shoe, she was wearing a pair of flower glasses, rubbing the cone on her head from time to time, then putting an eye on the sole with a cone, and wearing the thread pierced needle from that eye.

I sometimes learn from my grandmother, rubbing the awl on my head, and attracting the grown-ups' laughter, saying, "you don't rub oil on your hair and rub any awl!" Oh, I know that action is for a reason.

Adults often say that whoever is dexterous is to see the housewives pick up their clothes rather than their stitches.

Hand sewing is not only for cotton padded jacket and cotton trousers, but also for hand washing when making western shirts or Bragy.

I once had a classmate who had many children at home, and a cloth jacket was sewn up by hand. What should I do if I wear it? I'll make it look fresh when I dye it again.

Another day? It has been spotted and disassembled, and it has been dismantled and disassembled into slices.

Is it slow? Actually, it's not slow. People's pace of life is very compatible with this.

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A needle basket, which contains thimble, wire, needle box, scissors and tape, is the housewife's minimum home.

If you are old, you need to add a pair of glasses.

At the bottom of the basket there are many kinds of buttons with various colors. Sometimes there are also hooks, trousers hooks and so on.

In addition, it is a cloth head package. This kind of parcel is almost necessary for housewives, because it is better to choose a piece of clothes than to look at colors and materials.

If I hadn't trained this manual skill from childhood, how can I make cotton padded jacket and trousers for my family in 60s and 70s? In 50s, making clothes and making shoes, and even mending clothes and stockings, are all necessary for life.

It is not like the 60 generation of Lei Feng after the patch is simple, not like the 90s hand made fashion, in order to return to nature.

When a grown-up kid coaxed a child to sleep in Tianjin, they often hum a song, "a little boy, sitting on the door, crying and shouting for a daughter-in-law. Why should a daughter-in-law do a pair of trousers, make a gown, make shoes and make socks?"

The word "well" is a unique local word in Tianjin. It is called "four", which represents a broader "what". This is the continuation of Chinese farming economy and the conscious action of Chinese women.

They reported hard work, and some housewives had to make six children's shoes by hand by 60s.

They have to go to work during the day, and the time for making clothes and shoes can only be arranged in the early morning.

This habit is not the same as the night before midnight when intellectuals write.

They were so tired that they were exhausted after coming back from work.

What's more, it's more important to save energy in the morning than to stay up late at night, especially in summer.

We must not forget that hardworking women are hardworking.