By Shannon Pennella, Brittany Burda, and Christine Kotch

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Chinese Clothing

• By Shannon Pennella, Brittany Burda, and
  Christine Kotch

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Chinese Colors

• Wore Bright Colors
• Each color meant something
• Color determines their importance
• Symbols on their clothes
• The parents dressed their children in designs to
  protect them from ghosts.

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Emperors

• High supreme rulers of China
• Robes made out of fine silk
• The only ones allowed to wear yellow

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Feet Wrapping

• Feet are only about three inches long
• Men thought it was attractive
• Very painful process
• So painful that they often cry for about 3 years
• Walk with a hobble
• Only rich girls get this treatment
• Bones break with a cloth wrapped tightly
• Around the feet

Feet Wrapping
Feet Wrapping
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Chinese feet after cloth is taken off.
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Sunglasses today
The Chinese invented sunglasses over 500 years
ago
The first sunglasses over 500 years ago
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A Belief

• People believed that ghosts could harm people
  especially kids
• They dressed kids in designs to protect them

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Certain Clothes At Certain Times

• For weddings usually wore red and gold long gowns
• For other special occasions-jackets/coats over
  pants, or for women skirts
• Wealthier people wore silk

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Kinds of Clothes

• There are many different clothes
• Made by cotton and silk
• Some examples
• Kimonos (kind of like dresses)
• Tunics (like robes)

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Peasant Clothing

• The peasants often wore wool and ramie, since
  they could not afford silk.
• They were only allowed to wear solid black and
  blue colors
• Their clothing was often hand sewn by family
  members or friends.
• Only could afford one or two outfits

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The End
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