Three Asian Traditional Wedding Costumes
Wedding dress is a dress worn by bride during the day at her wedding. A simple wedding dress doesn’t contain many details and most of the modern style wedding dress today applying this concept in their design. The color and style for a simple wedding dress must meet the basic requirement of elegant, presentable and feminine. Some wedding dresses design nowadays still constitutes religion and culture of the wedding participants. However here I would like to share with you seven traditional wedding dresses in the world.
Japanese “Kimono”
“Kimono” is a traditional garment worn by Japanese women, men and children. However Japanese women also wear “Kimono” during their wedding ceremony. Kimono is not a simple wedding dress as it required lots of time of effort for sewing it. Not to compare with other simple wedding dresses, “Kimono” also required time to wear it up. Generally for a Japanese bride, they need to put on this traditional costume at least 5 hours before the wedding ceremony. Again, “Kimono” is expensive due to its materials if comparing to other cheap simple wedding dresses. Kimonos are in T-shaped straight line robes with long collars and wide sleeves. The work on this dress is not as simple as what we observed from other simple wedding dresses. “Kimono” often worn by women during special occasions and festivals but somehow other it still is worn daily in some Japanese families. Many of the fashion designers in Japan still source for way to develop a new version of “Kimono” which going to match the idea of traditional Kimono and modern simple wedding dress.
Chinese “Hanfu”
“Hanfu” is a traditional wedding costume worn by Chinese bride on her wedding. “Hanfu” also known as “Hanzhuang” or “Guzhuang” and sometimes explained in English they called it Chinese Silk Robe. Same as “Kimono”, “Hanfu” was not simple wedding dresses as it required time and effort for sewing it. The costume is fully flourished with golden string that draft out the main graphic of “long” and “fong”. Chinese believed dragon and phoenix are two best sign for the population. As such the art work on it make the simple wedding dress look complicated. Some costumes commonly thought of Chinese like “Samfu” and “Qipao” and these traditional dresses also for use when there’s any formal function been held.
Vietnamese “Ao dai”
The “Aodai” is a national costume worn by Vietnamese women on important occasions. This dress looks elegant, straight, simple and presentable. Besides it also consider one of the cheap simple wedding dresses in the world, cheap not in terms of the quality but cheap in the prices. These <a href=”http://hubpages.com/hub/SevenSignatureWeddingDressesInTheWorld”>elegant simple wedding dresses In the World</a> have been justified as the traditional wedding dresses in Vietnam. Vietnamese bride would need to wear it during their wedding ceremony. However, the style worn today for “Aodai” is modernization of the “ao ngu than” and inspired by Manchu in the 19th century. “Ao dai’s” are classic examples for simple wedding dresses as it is only constitute a tight fitting silk tunic fabric fashion style. They are also equivalent garment for Vietnam man as their wedding gown called “ao gam”.