Underwear (English name: underwear) refers to the clothes worn next to the body, including Chinese bras, undershirts, undershirts, half-arms, tube tops, bras and so on. , usually in direct contact with the skin, is one of the indispensable clothes for modern people.
Underwear has the functions of absorbing sweat, shaping, setting off the figure, keeping warm, and not being harmed by pollution from the body, and is sometimes regarded as a sexual feature.
Ancient China
China had the earliest linen fabric as early as ancient times, and its density was 10/cm. But at that time, underwear and coats were no different, just used for primitive cover and warmth. 4000 years ago, flax had reached 24 pieces/cm. With the spread of silk weaving technology in Lei Zu, the function of underwear is more and more different from that of outerwear, which is called "tube top wrapping".
Women's "lewd clothes" in the Tang Dynasty can be seen from the tulle low-cut embroidered shirts in The Picture of Beauty. However, the women in the Song Dynasty in The West Chamber covered their chests with tubes, their necks with young ones, their chests with diamonds, and their bellies were covered, which covered up the myriad customs and charm. However, China is a conservative nation after all. Until the late Qing Dynasty, with the introduction of foreign yarn and foreign cloth, the western corset was really interpreted in the figure of women in China.