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What clothes do Tibetans wear?

Characteristics of Tibetan costumes

(1) The basic structure of Tibetan costumes is fat waist, long sleeves and big chest robes. Wearing this kind of clothes with large structure can be used as a quilt when sleeping at night. The robe sleeves are wide and the arms are flexible, which is not only cold and warm, but also convenient for life and travel. When the temperature rises during the day, you can remove an arm to facilitate heat dissipation and body temperature regulation.

(2) Both men and women love ornaments. Tibetan men and women all over the country pay special attention to ornaments, which have many textures, such as silver, gold, pearls, agate, jade, turquoise, silk, jade, coral and amber. It has a wide range of uses, including headdress, hair accessories, sideburns, earrings, necklaces, chest ornaments, waist ornaments, rings and so on. Beautiful shape, mostly natural shape. Women like to wear corals, agates, necklaces and silver Buddha boxes; Men generally wear all kinds of waist knives, fire sickle and other accessories, as well as earrings, rings, bracelets and so on.

(3) bold and exquisite color matching. Another feature of Tibetan costumes is the gradual increase in color and composition. The lace of leather clothing in pastoral areas is usually composed of vertical color blocks such as blue, green, purple, cyan, yellow and rice, which form colorful ribbons in turn. Black, red, green and purple stripes with a width of 10 cm are usually arranged in turn on the shoulders, hem and cuffs of women's leather clothes. They often decorate their cross-patterned robes and boots, giving people the association of "charity", "caressing" and "being kind to others". They boldly use contrasting colors such as red, green, white, black, red, blue and Rayna Sue, and skillfully use a variety of colors and gold and silver threads to achieve a bright and harmonious artistic effect. The color matching is very bold and exquisite.