The Political Taste Of Taiwan Costumes

In January 18th, the Confucian Temple of Taipei hosted a spectacular fashion show. The island designers put Chinese elements into the costume design to make the audience amazing.

People in the fashion industry in the island believe that in the past, Taiwan's Hakkas and hahanfeng, the designers of the younger generation on both sides of the Taiwan Strait will be the selling point of Chinese culture, and will make Shanghai, Beijing and Taipei become the fashion centers of Asian fashion.

Persist in plait, refrain from wearing kimono.

Dress is not only a question of dressing for the people of Taiwan, but also related to "national identity" in the early days.

According to Ye Licheng, assistant professor of fashion design department of Taiwan practice University, Japanese colonists advocated the Westernization of the island during the Japanese occupation, but many people insisted on wearing the clothes of Qing Dynasty. Some of them dressed westernized but insisted on braids until the Qing government was overthrown.

In the 30s of last century, women in the island began to wear cheongsam. It was reported that it was influenced by the trend of Shanghai.

At that time, the Japanese colonial government, in order to cut off the Taiwan people's recognition of the mainland, began forcing students to imitate Japanese domestic uniforms and set up a course of dress cutting, hoping to reverse the concept of the new generation.

Taiwan's knowledgeable people were aware of the Japanese's intentions at that time, and launched a new culture movement, insisting on wearing Chinese clothes.

In the same period, families closely related to Japanese were dressed in Japanese style clothes.

After 1936, the Japanese government once wanted to implement kimono in Taiwan.

After the Kuomintang authorities accepted Taiwan, they also regarded costumes as one of the symbols of "national identity".

In order to wipe out the colonial relics, the authorities stipulate that Japanese style clogs and Japanese uniform should not be worn.

According to the old man on the island, in 1949, men on the mainland withdrew from Taiwan generally wore military uniforms, and women's clothing was mainly blue and plain cheongsam.

In the 50s of last century, the United States helped a lot of flour in Taiwan. People on the island converted their flour bags into clothes and trousers, and many people came up with four big words "Sino US cooperation" on their backs or buttocks.

In the 60s of last century, a series of events prompted the trend of fashion in the island.

The first is the Dahua evening paper's first beauty contest. Jiali should wear fashionable clothes. Two, the TV station was set up. The designer Wang Rongsheng first taught women to make clothes in the program, and was demonstrated by models, similar to the current show. Three, the Academy was established and the first clothing department was set up to lay the foundation for training designers.

Four, the completion of China's shopping malls and first department stores, coupled with the improvement of the economy, people can afford to spend.

The five is the influence of Hongkong film and television, including Shao's films, pictorial magazines and other magazines, which has a far-reaching impact on the fashion of Taiwan.

In 70s, "fancy clothes" such as miniskirt entered Taiwan with hippie culture. However, in order to maintain the "simple folk custom", the authorities stipulated that artists should not be allowed to dress on costumes.

The two sides join hands to replace Tokyo.

In the 80s of last century, the "China World Trade Center bureau" began to encourage designers to label their names directly on clothing.

The wearing of the leading characters in Qiong Yao's drama also led to the trend of fashion, including bell bottoms and so on.

Since 90s, sexy has been repositioned. Ye Licheng pointed out that before we all had a bad view of naked clothes, but later sexy became a positive evaluation.

After the haha and Harbin wave, island designers began to turn to Chinese culture for inspiration.

Such as the totem decoration of bronzes, the wearing of figures in the riverside figures on Qingming, the elegant colors of the song and porcelain, but the noble colors, these elements are treasures in the eyes of the fashion designers.

Especially after the frequent exchanges between the two sides of the Strait, the industry believes that the mainland and Tokyo will have a chance to replace Chinese cities in Asia with the help of the huge market in mainland China.