Uyghur costumes are colorful, free and easy, and exquisitely decorated. They are closely related to the natural environment, practical functions, cultural heritage, and aesthetic taste. They are a vivid expression of national character and culture. In terms of styles, Uighur women’s clothing includes long coats, short coats, waistcoats, vests, shirts, trousers, skirts and so on.
Uyghur costumes are colorful, free and easy, and exquisitely decorated. They are closely related to the natural environment, practical functions, cultural heritage, and aesthetic taste. They are a vivid expression of national character and culture.
In terms of styles, Uighur women’s clothing includes long coats, short coats, waistcoats, vests, shirts, trousers, skirts, etc. Women are used to wearing coats or waistcoats outside dresses and trousers inside skirts. Women’s long coats mainly have two types: closed collar and straight collar.
There are three types of jackets: double-breasted jackets, right-lap jackets, and half-open right-lap jackets. Young women like to wear bright colors such as red, green and purple.
Elderly women like to wear black, blue, dark green and other group flowers, scattered flowers, satin or cloth. The buckle tabs are made of copper, silver, gold and other materials, and the outline is spherical, disc-shaped or olive-shaped.
Uighur men’s clothing is relatively simple, mainly including long coats, long robes, short jackets, tops, shirts, waist scarves and so on. The coats are collectively called Yuhuan, and these clothes are mostly made of blue, gray, white, black and other natural colored silk and satin materials.
Traditional Uyghur men’s long coats are mostly knee-length, with wide sleeves, no collars, and no buttons. Waist scarves are mostly black, brown, blue and other dark colors, and vary in length, with the longest being more than 2 meters long.
The festive waist scarves are very colorful, some are printed and some are embroidered. Most men’s shirts do not open the chest and are as long as the knees and hips. The shirts of young people and children are mostly decorated with lace.
Uighurs like to wear hats, which not only have the functions of preventing cold and heatstroke, but also meet the needs of life etiquette. The traditional hats of the Uighurs mainly include leather hats and flower hats.
Fur hats are mostly made of sheepskin, but also fox, raccoon, rabbit, marmot, sea otter, and mink. The four-lens small flower hat is a common hat decoration for Uyghur men, women and children. This kind of small flower hat is called “duoba” in Uyghur language. It is practical to wear and has a decorative beauty.
From the perspective of craftsmanship, Uyghur costumes have ingenious design concepts, and their shapes are simple and solemn, simple and elegant, reflecting the historical accumulation of a region and a culture. Women like to use contrasting colors, red and green contrast each other, making the red brighter and the green more emerald.
Men’s clothing is mostly black and white, simple and solemn. Clothing decoration mainly expresses the objects in life.
Branches, leaves, vines, flowers, fruits in nature, as well as pots, pots, bottles, stoves, altars, qins, etc. used in daily life are all included in the field of vision of pattern design, represented by squares, rectangles, circles, triangles, rhombuses, Various shapes such as stars, crescents, and zigzags are presented.
Uyghurs are a nation that loves flowers. Flower patterns are the most common on clothing. People wear embroidered hats, embroidered clothes, embroidered shoes, embroidered towels, and embroidered bags on their backs. Clothes are closely related to flowers. .
The beauty of clothing, the beauty of life, Uyghur clothing art is a beautiful flower in the big family of the Chinese nation, full of vigor and vitality.