Japanese Costumes vs Korean Costumes

Japanese cloths vs Korean cloths 

According to the anthropologist descriptions we all know people migration to Korea and Japan were done from china. There are main reasons to prove this statement. Because the nearest countries of china are Korea and Japan. Inculcation, trade, marital, migration factors can be given for that. Here I’m not going to talking about historic migration but here I wish to explain such details Korea and Japan traditional styles of dress have reflected Chinese influence and after developed characteristic styles of their own. But here we can get an idea when reading course material TTJ5142 all those traditional fashions of three countries have as well as similarities and differences. In this letter I hope to distribute such details by giving suitable five examples.

Styles

When we are considering styles and design we met long sleeve based and kimono sleeves based cloths. Some types of Japanese cloths and Korean styles we can see these sleeve styles. Not only that when we talking about front opening we can wrapped openings in the china pien-fu, in the Japan kurotome, and in the Korea turumagi and several traditional dresses. And also when we consider men’s wear all of these countries long sleeve fully dresses and robs types wear found. We can give examples for fully dresses for mens in china chang-fu, in Japan men’s yukata and in the Korean society mens hanbok.  

Colours

In china we can see white colour for regular dresses and also we can see this behavior on Korean and Japanese regular/ formal, some traditional dresses. Apart white colour we can see changed colour designs for climatic changes such as red coloured are designed for summer season, white and black colour cloths are winter. Apart these details red colour can be seen some Chinese, Korean, and Japanese traditional dresses.

Raw Materials

Basic raw materials are silk and when we distributing widely found Chinese, Korean, and Japanese traditional dresses were silk or silk based. First silk invented by china and I think after it had reflected to Japan and Korea. Silk fiber extracted from silk worm’s cocoon. I suppose silk fabric properties may be affected to choose as their raw materials for traditional cloth such as smoothness, low weight and comfortability.  

Decorations

Apart colours we can see some decorations such as flowers, letters using sewing stitches. We can see these decorations in china pien-fu, shen-i and in the japan men’s and Korea hanbok styles, chgori etc.   

Accessories

When we are talking about costumes of these three counties we met several accessories such as traditional hats, umbrella, head and other scarves and sashes. Commonly sashes we can see in china shen-i, in Japan kimona, furisode, furisode, kurotome and in Korea yangban styles.