Collection: Hanfu Dress

Hanfu dress has many styles, but mostly consists of two pieces. The lower garment is a skirt to the ankle. And the upper garment is a matching long-sleeved garment(a blouse, a shirt, or a jacket).

When putting on the hanfu dress, the wearers should tie the skirt on their waist or above the chest with sewed ties. And they need to wear the top garment either inside or outside the skirt. Moreover, there is overlap needed between the top and the skirt.

There are two primary hanfu dress styles: Ruqun(襦裙) and Aoqun(袄裙). For Ruqun, the skirt overlaps the top, but inversely, the skirt was overlapped by the top for Aoqun.

Hanfu dress is well-known through the world, and here's why hanfu dress takes up a large part of the hanfu garments.

1. The ancient people liked the dress style aesthetically.
2. Both women and men all wore the dress.
   In ancient times, women needed to cover the feet with clothes. Even the poorest women needed to wore the dresses when meeting people. Besides the women, men also wore dresses, and there's possibility that the men wore dresses even before the women.
3. The hanfu dress can show the affluence and wealth.
   The dress production needs a large amount of cloth materials and various threads. In this case, it spends more money to complete the dresses. Thus, the affluence of the wearer is self-evident. Further more, the emperors of all dynasties preferred to wear exquisite dresses to demonstrate their supreme standing, and it stimulated the other people to simulate the emperor.
4. The ancients sat on their knees.
   The dress can cover this indecent posture when people sat on their knees.

In the case above, it's not weird that most people would think of the long fairy dresses once mentioning hanfu.