/fa/ - Fashion

Because americans are actually brainless sheeple who can't think outside their culture controlled parameters. For all their brags about individualism they actually conform to a limited set of expressions and hate everything else.

>>15879547
China has literally thousands of years of tradition and culture to draw on.
Americans have no tradition and their culture... well.

Because most European traditional clothing was either incredibly expensive and intricate and worn exclusively by nobles or the wealthy, or they were used exclusively for important holidays, religious occasions and weddings, and in these cases, it was also particularly expensive (often, a good portion of a family's whole wealth was spent on jewelry and a good dress for the daughter). Other than that, other "traditional" clothing was workwear.

But anyway, mostly because you'd get clowned for doing it. Still, I'd love to be able to go around dressed like Lee Van Cleef.

>>15879512
Because it looks autistic and shit. Simple as
>>15879563
Just look at this stupid fuck shit

>>15879512
This is a Chinese elementary school going on a field trip.

Times are good.

>>15879565
Are you projecting?

>>15879578
I'm pretty sure those are people dressed up for an anime convention and not a class of 12 year olds.

>>15879547
They have good individualism

People are ignoring the media monopoly now

>>15879618
Uh Yea totally damn I wish I had a dress like that lmao

>>15879626
Then go buy one.
And get it tailored.
Express yourself to all.

>>15879621
It is a school

Chinese are proud of Genshin Impact

All that communist party Great Leap Forward cultural revolution soul has been reborn as anime loving and Hanfu
All that energy had to be put somewhere so they’re extremely passionate about it.

Earth is heaven
The Mandate of Heaven is restored

>>15879623
>They have good individualism
They really really don't lmao. "People" ignoring media are just conservatards conforming to their racist grandparents lmao.

>>15879660
Are you projecting?

>>15879623

American girls are perfect

I bless that blue girls soul eternal

it just doesn't look as cool

>>15879718
Why not both?

>>15879733
that piece on the left is so fucking beautiful and looks incredibly comfy
wish I could wear something close to that as a guy.

It's pretty autistic to give a fuck about what other people wear or don't wear

>>15879745
WHERE DO YOU THINK YOU ARE
TOURIST SCUM?

>>15879741
You can.
Thanks to Drag Race you can literally walk down the street at noon in a bikin and high heels and people will applaud you.
So thank a drag queen today!

I wish Christian/Biblical dress persisted.

Mostly because I'm sick of all the sizing you have to keep track of nowadays. Robes are very simple in comparison

also nobody really tries to make it look modern too

>>15879563
>dirndls and lederhosen are expensive
>hanfu isn't
lol dumbass

>>15879778
Part of it is the synthetic fibers, another part is how form-fitting and standardized modern clothes are. This is why 99% pics on /fa/ have "wings" on their t-shirts.

Another part is that these styles are designed to be made by hand, and are designed to have a degree of internal modularity. A skirt can be hiked up and pinned in place depending on the context. The time, effort, and supplies necessary to make a skirt of five occasions goes into make one that can instead by quickly altered to fit five occasions. The Kosovorotka, an Eastern European men's peasant shirt (the "White Dashiki") is similar, having sleeves that can be quickly altered in tightness and placement depending on the occasion, and was (and still is) worn with a belt whose height can be used to adjust the firmness of the article depending on the need.

Contrast this with machine-made clothing, which is more form fitting, but at the same time not modular. It's also not designed to breathe at all, whereas pre-modern clothing was created with an internal temperature regulation system in mind.

If this thread is still up I'll post the Byzantine Thin Toga, which if it continued to today I'd imagine would be a long string you'd wrap around yourself.

>chink shit
no one cares Chang

>>15879741
Do it. Her outfit is the same as the male version

Buy the same thing and tailor it.

I have a yukata kimono
It’s essentially the same thing
Typically made for men.

Yes wear what she’s wearing

Life is what you make it
You are god

Express your soul and it will envelop the earth

I’d buy her outfit, adjust it, and wear it in public.
And I’m a white Canadian guy.

>>15879751
o b s e s s e d

>>15879801
I've eyed yukata before. I think short women's kimono are close to my ideal fit.
This is a westernized one by an American surf brand and it seems ridiculous to use an example... but ignore everything else about the image (model, colour, pattern, etc) and imagine a piece with that cut over a button-up shirt and wool trousers, instead of a blazer/knitwear.
There are some beautiful vintage ones in TO thriftstores that go for ~$100, will try some on after lockdown.

>>15879801
this is so good wtf

The Chinese literally live like kings in their own country; like if you were a white person living in Thailand. How I envy them.

im an american and would be willing to go full westernwear if i could find any that wasnt made for fatasses.

>>15879512
Good for them. They should be proud of who and what they are and their traditions.

A suit is trad European clothing though, it's the more modern shift from the older styles, the natural progression of clothing. That's why it would be odd for someone to wear something from 1750.

But some countries did not have that natural progression, they had older style clothing and then just switched to European so to go back to their roots, they have to take a greater leap back in time to do that.

If we did this in the west what would be the best period clothing to revive? For me it would have to be late 1700s/early 1800s.