clothing

=Chinese Clothing= People in ancient China, generally wore tunics. Women wore long tunics (dresses) down to the ground, with belts, and men wore shorter ones down to their knees. Sometimes they wore jackets. In early China, poor people made their clothes of hemp or ramie. Rich people wore silk. During the Sui Dyanasty in the 500's, the emperor decided that all poor people had to wear blue or black clothes, and only rich people could wear colors. In 1296, the Chinese were introduced to cotton and liked it better than ramie or hemp because it was warmer, and softer, and stronger, and cheaper.