The dress of Taiwan has a political taste

On January 18th, Taipei City’s Confucius Temple held a spectacular costume show. The island’s designers incorporated Chinese characters into their costume designs, stunning the audience. According to people in the fashion industry on the island, in the past, when Taiwan blew ha, han and han winds, the younger generation of designers on both sides of the strait will use Chinese culture as a selling point. This will surely enable Shanghai, Beijing, and Taipei to become Asian fashion centers.

Persistence in staying and refusing to wear clothing for Kimono is not only a matter of dressing for the Taiwanese public. It was even related to "national identity." According to Ye Licheng, assistant professor of clothing design department of Taiwan Practical University, during the Japanese occupation period, Japanese colonialists had advocated the western clothes of the people on the island, but many people insisted on wearing clothing from the Qing Dynasty. Although some people dressed, although they were westernized, they persisted in leaving the dumplings until the Qing Dynasty. It was only when the government was overthrown. In the 30s of the last century, women in the island began to wear cheongsam. It is reported that this is influenced by the wave of Shanghai. At this point, the Japanese colonial government began to force Taiwanese students to imitate Japan’s domestic uniforms and cut dresses to cut back on the concept of the new generation.

Taiwan’s insightful people are alert to the Japanese’s intentions at this time. They then launched a new cultural movement and insisted on wearing Chinese-style clothing. In the same period, families that had a close relationship with the Japanese changed to wear Japanese clothes. After 1936, the Japanese government once wanted to fully promote kimono in Taiwan, but later it was over.

After the Kuomintang authorities accepted Taiwan, they also saw clothing as one of the symbols of "national identity." In order to wipe out the colonial ruins, the authorities stipulated that Japanese style wooden plaques and Japanese characters should not be worn. According to memories of the old people on the island, in 1949, the mainland dismissed the men generally wear **, women's clothing mainly blue cheongsam cheongsam. In the 1950s, the United States assisted Taiwan with a lot of flour, and the people on the island converted the flour bags into underwear. Many people appeared on the back or on the buttocks as "Chinese-U.S. cooperation."

In the 1960s, a series of events led to a new wave of clothing on the island. First, the Dahua Evening News hosted the first pageant contest, and Belle wanted to wear fashionable clothes. Second, the television station was established. The designer Wang Haosheng first taught women to make clothes on the show and was modeled by the model, similar to the current catwalk. Third, the practice college was established. , The first clothing department, laid the foundation for training designers. The fourth is the completion of China Shopping Mall and the first department store. With the economic improvement, the people have the ability to spend. Fifth, the influence of Hong Kong film and television, including the introduction of Shaw's films, pictorials, etc., has had a profound influence on Taiwan's fashion. In the 1970s, "Exotic costumes such as miniskirts" flowed into Taiwan with hippie culture, but the authorities stipulated that artists would not be allowed to perform on the show in order to maintain "unpretentiousness."

The two sides of the Taiwan Strait have joined hands to replace the brand concept of clothing on the island of Tokyo. In the 1980s, Taiwan’s “International Trade Bureau” began to encourage designers to name the clothing directly. The protagonists in Qiong Yao's play also led the trend of clothing, including bell-bottoms and so on. Since the 1990s, sexy has been repositioned. Ye Licheng pointed out that before everyone looked bad about clothing, but later sexy became positive.

After the wave of Harbin and Harbin, the island's designers began to turn to Chinese culture for inspiration. For example, the bronze totem ornamentation, the figure wear on the Qingming River, and the elegance of the Song Dynasty show noble colors. These elements are treasures in the costume designer's eyes. In particular, after cross-strait exchanges have become more frequent, people on the island’s industry believe that with the help of the huge market in mainland China, the two sides will have the opportunity to replace the popular status of Tokyo in Asia with Chinese cities.