Take these three basic clothes as an example. When dressing, cover the petticoat inside the skirt waist. The skirt waist is extremely high, and the petticoat is wide and long. For example, in Meng Haoran's poem "Chun Qing", "clothes are wrapped in grass when sitting, and skirts sweep plum blossoms when walking".
Above the waist, half-naked chest, of course kabuki is still the most exposed. In this regard, there are also many corresponding descriptions in Tang poetry. For example, there is a saying in "Meeting Neighbors" that "the skirt is half naked"; There is a saying in "To Song Ji" that "the snow lamp on the chest shines obliquely".
The skirt should be tied with a gauze belt above the waist and tied in front of it, hanging long and graceful. There is a poem in "Give a Pipa Prostitute" that "a pair of nepotism ties, send an oriole and a lonely goose early".
There are many colors such as red, purple, yellow and green, and the red skirt is the most fashionable. "Five Days of Visiting Prostitutes" is a portrayal of "Mei Daisheng wins the day lily color, and the red skirt envies pomegranate flowers", and traces of scarlet can often be seen from the pottery figurines unearthed from the tomb of Tang Dynasty.
However, the ladies of the Tang Dynasty were not satisfied with this. They even embroidered various patterns on skirts, and even woven precious and beautiful birds on skirts. See "A Book of Ruling and Ruling": "Because the son of An Le made a hundred birds' skirts, the government imitated them". The brave pursuit and creation of women is certainly commendable, but from the perspective of protecting the ecological environment today, I will inevitably be hurt by those innocent birds.
The purse, also called silk, is worn outside the skirt. As can be seen from the murals in Dunhuang, during the Northern and Southern Dynasties, female customers had silk-throwing costumes. However, although the custom of throwing silk is left over from the Northern and Southern Dynasties, I think it does not rule out the influence from Persia. The reason is that this custom is not inherent in the Han nationality and has not been used by previous generations of ethnic minorities. It was Persians who used clothes in Asia at that time. After the opening of the Silk Road, clothing customs will naturally enter the Central Plains with Buddhism.
In addition to skirts, tops and purses, women's dresses in the Tang Dynasty also had half arms. Half-arm is a half-sleeve blouse that is sleeved outside the blouse. This custom is influenced by the dress customs of Ju Chi people in Xinjiang.
Li He's "Song of the Tang Dynasty" contains the poem "Silver Luan steps on half an arm", and the mural of Princess Yongtai's tomb also contains the image of a lady with half an arm. Princess Li Xianhui of Yongtai is the seventh daughter of Tang Zhongzong Li Xian, the granddaughter of Wu Zetian, and married Wu Yanji, the nephew of Wu Zetian. Later, Wu Yanji offended Wu Zetian, who sentenced the princess and Xu to death. Li Xianhui passed away at 17. There are colorful paintings on the tomb door and tomb wall, as well as a group of exquisite stone-lined ladies' paintings. The young woman in the painting, wearing a long silk scarf on her shoulders, or enjoying flowers, chatting, looking for poems, or dancing and teasing birds, is a portrayal of the tomb owner's life before his death.
The painting of Princess Yongtai's tomb is still in the style of the early Tang Dynasty. Women often wear tight-fitting narrow-sleeved dresses, and the elegant and elegant styles of the Northern and Southern Dynasties are still visible. After the prosperous Tang Dynasty, Bai Juyi's "Spring Dreams and Hundred Rhymes" became the mainstream of fashion, the characters were "short and fat", and the main aesthetic orientation of clothing style began to be fatter and wider.