Will you wear Thai clothes when traveling in Thailand?

When traveling in Thailand, I will wear Thai clothes. After all, when I go to a place, I have to feel the local customs as well as the traditional culture. Clothing is also a kind of traditional culture.

Thailand's traditional national costumes are closely related to the natural geographical environment. Thailand is located in the tropics, and most areas are hot and rainy all year round, which makes Thai people have obvious characteristics in clothing. For a long time, most Thai men did not wear tops. In the early days of the Bangkok dynasty, officials only wore tops when they went to court to see the king. During Rama IV, Thailand's contacts with foreign countries gradually increased.

The king didn't think the coat was indecent, so he ordered the officials of the civil and military departments to wear clothes to enter the court regardless of spring, summer, autumn and winter. In 1898, Rama IV further stipulated that no adult should be naked around the palace and temples. Later, the scope of application of this order continued to extend, that is, no adult or child should be naked in public. By the beginning of the 2th century, the custom of not wearing a shirt gradually faded out of the living habits of the Thai people.

Thais have their own traditional costumes, some of which are still popular today, while others have become history. For example, the tail-tripping curtain used to be a traditional underpant in Thailand, which was worn by both men and women. The tail-tripping curtain is a piece of cloth, which is simple to wear. It is wrapped around the body, pulled forward and twisted into a bundle, then tightened from the legs to the hips and stuffed into the back.

Seen from the back, the tail-tripping curtain looks like a tail, so it is called the tail-tripping curtain. Today, the tripper curtain has withdrawn from the Thai people's clothing series. However, people can still appreciate the elegance of this kind of clothing in the drama that shows the traditional life of Thailand. There are many exquisite traditional clothes for Thai court personnel. The colors of the clothes on the 7th of each week are yellow, pink, green, orange, blue, purple and red. People from all walks of life also have this habit. But after the 193s, this custom was no longer popular.

Today, the clothes of modern Thais have changed a lot, but they still retain some of their own traditional national costume styles. Thai clothing is relatively simple, men wear trousers and short-sleeved shirts, and women wear skirts. Men and women often wear slippers when they go out and go barefoot at home.