Body Type

Hanfu style is becoming increasingly more popular. Among the Hanfu styles, you can see some of them are excellent and graceful. It is said that the shape of one’s face and body can be inferred from wearing Hanfu, because of the relationship between body shape and Hanfu design. This article will introduce you to what the differences are among various body shapes and how to choose a Hanfu/Han element clothing that matches your body type. Hourglass figure The hourglass figure is characterized by an abundant chest, thin waist, wide hips, and full thighs, which is a figure with graceful lines. The hourglass shape is also called the X shape or S shape. Comparatively speaking, the Qi waist Hanfu is more suitable. In addition, it is also very suitable for the Han element clothing with waist contraction, and with silk, satin, and other materials, you can highlight your femininity~ Apple shape The body is round, the chest, abdomen, buttocks are plump, and the legs are slender. Even though the apple-shaped body is not high in weight, it is easy to look bloated, especially the upper body. If you choose Han element clothing, you can wear a high waist skirt that can…

So now that you’ve learned about all these pieces separately, we arrive at the question: how do we put all of these pieces together? Let’s go over some ways these are usually put together, how to refer to them, and other details that might not have been covered in previous articles. Body, sleeves, collar: these are the main three things that we use to distinguish types of hanfu. In naming conventions, we usually refer to a piece in the order of collar-sleeve-body. Take a look at this image: What body type, sleeve type, and collar type is it? Well, I’ll tell you first that this is a Shan, meaning that it’s a single-layered top or robe shorter than the knees with no yao lan. Take a look at the sleeves—do they curve or change in diameter at all? Yes, they seem to narrow in a striaght line from the root of the sleeve to the cuff, meaning this is a feijixiu design, or airplane sleeve. The collar’s shape is pretty obviously parallel, or duijin, since the two sides come straight down and don’t touch. Well then, we can refer to this as a duijin feijixiu shan: a parallel collar, airplane…