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The áo gấm (Vietnamese: [ʔǎːw ɣə̌m], Hán-Nôm: 襖錦) is a modified áo dài made with thicker fabric, and is a traditional brocade tunic for men. [1] It is more elaborate than the formal "áo the", a similar men's tunic.
An ao dai costs about $200 in the United States and about $40 in Vietnam. [ 30 ] "Symbolically, the áo dài invokes nostalgia and timelessness associated with a gendered image of the homeland for which many Vietnamese people throughout the diaspora yearn," wrote Nhi T. Lieu, an assistant professor at the University of Texas at Austin. [ 11 ]
Vietnamese wore a round neck costume, which was made from 4 parts of cloth called áo tứ điên. [8] Both men and women wore it. There are also other types such as: áo tràng vạt (long-flap robe). The garments "áo" (áo is for the upper part of body) are below knee length, and round neck garments have buttons when the long-flap robe is ...
Áo bà ba (Vietnamese: [ʔǎːw ɓâː ɓaː], translates to "Grandma's shirt") is a traditional southern Vietnamese garment. The top part that covers the torso is called the áo ("shirt" in English). It is mostly associated with rural southern Vietnam, especially in the Mekong Delta. Often worn as a top and bottom set, the áo bà ba is ...
Indeed, much of Vietnamese poetry has been dedicated to the beauty of women in their vermilion bodices (yếm đào). While the bottom of the yếm are v-shaped, there were different styles for the top of the garment which covered the neck, the most common two variations being the rounded neck or the v-shaped neck style.
The ao dai, or to be more precise, its predecessor was forced upon North Vietnamese people, it seemed South Vietnamese voluntarily accepted it. Minh Mạng's edict in 1837 quoted above is actually a second ban on traditional North Vietnamese clothing (the previous one was in 1827-1828) and forcing them to wear Southern clothing (the predecessor ...
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The áo giao lĩnh was influenced from Han Chinese clothing. [1] It is a robe with a wrap collar closing on the right side. The wrap collar closing on the right side is known as jiaoling youren (Chinese: 交領右衽; lit. 'intersecting collar right lapel') in China; garments with this form of wrap collar originated in China and started to be worn at least since the Shang dynasty (c. 1600 BC ...