Usually, I often wear cloth clothes. On New Year's Day or festive days, I usually wear satin clothes with brocade edges. They like to use contrasting colors such as red, green and blue. Both men and women like to wear bright belts, which are also important accessories for the upper body.
Men usually wear Mongolian knives, broadswords and snuff bottles on both sides of their belts. Pastoral areas like to wear fragrant cowhide boots and high-waisted riding boots. Although boots are not worn in rural areas at ordinary times, the habit of wearing boots embroidered with various patterns on the surface and waist of boots on New Year's Day has remained.
Mongolian women traditionally wear robes, but in the past, due to the different living areas and production, the clothing styles in different regions were also different.
For example, women's costumes in Horqin and Harqin areas are greatly influenced by Manchu costumes, so they wear long gowns with wide straight tubes to their feet, split sides, various sets of flowers on cuffs and necklines, no belts on their feet, and no embroidered shoes.
Women in Buryatia wear tunics and tight vests, preferring simple and elegant colors such as blue, black and bronze. Of course, as a wedding symbol, women in Buryatia are not the only ones wearing vests. Women in other places also wear vests, but in different styles.
Therefore, people can easily tell whether they are married or not from their clothes. Mongolian robe, as a costume to show a person's national personality and characteristics, has a strong inheritance. Even in urban and rural pastoral areas, most Mongolians like to wear national costumes at festivals and various ceremonies to add festive atmosphere. There are also many people who wear national costumes as formal dresses when attending important social activities.
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Jewelry, robes, belts and boots are the four main parts of Mongolian costumes. ?
Jewelry is an ornament for Mongolian women on holidays, festive banquets and visiting relatives and friends. It is mostly made of agate, pearls, precious stones and gold and silver.
Robes are clothes that herders, men, women and children like. This kind of robe is long and wide, with buttons on the right side, high collar, neckline cuffs and hem often decorated with lace. Men's robes are mostly blue and brown; Women's robes are mostly green, red and purple. Wear a single robe in summer; Wear a sheepskin black robe in winter.
Wearing a Mongolian robe and a belt are necessary. Its color is in harmony with the color of robes, and herders can't live without boots all year round. Because it can keep out the wind and cold, and it is strong and durable.
References:
Baidu encyclopedia-Mongolian clothing