Tang Dynasty Fashion Guide for Beauties: Dressing in men's clothing and foreign attire!

During the Tang Dynasty, the fashion of wearing short-sleeved and short-sticky tops with trailing long skirts prevailed for a long time. After the height of the Tang Dynasty, the trend shifted to wide and dragging garments, with skirts trailing four to five inches on the ground. The custom of draping a shawl over the shoulders originated from the Persian region. Moreover, wearing men's clothing and foreign attire was also a fashion for women in the Tang Dynasty. Princess Taiping often wore men's clothing, described as 'a purple shirt, a jade belt, and a black gauze turban folded on top'. Wearing a foreign shirt with a turned-down collar, narrow sleeves, and soft boots was more conducive to engaging in various equestrian sports. The use of floral hairpins in the Tang Dynasty had strict hierarchical regulations. As part of the attire for noblewomen, it was generally in a set of two pieces. The first rank had nine floral hairpins; the second rank had eight; the third rank had seven. Eyebrow shapes in the Tang Dynasty were diverse, with common styles including crescent brows, willow brows, distant mountain brows, character 'eight' brows, and cloud-brushing brows. The raw materials for floral face decorations were very rich, including gold foil, paper, fish scales, pearls, mica, and more.