Countryside women living east of Suzhou City of Jiangsu Province still wear the traditional folk clothes and adornments and always wear headcloth, pieced coat, trousers with the waist pieced together and embroidered shoes and so on.

Women in watery regions attach much importance to hairstyles and headwear and try to demonstrate their ingenuity and beauty through their pitch-black hair, big hairpin, many ornaments on the hair, coupled with elegant headcloth and dress.

Their garments feature a very strong local flavor and a stable character to be handed down from one generation to another. However, these garments vary distinctly with changes of seasons, difference in ages and etiquette needs.

Generally speaking clothes for spring and autumn have the most distinctive characteristics. For these clothes, the upper garment is usually a pieced coat, whose material is mostly multicolor cloth, native cloth, or dark and light indanthrene cloth. Their colors feature clear contrast and are bright but not gaudy, gorgeous but not vulgar. Usually, materials of several colors are pieced together. The cutting is properly done and the stitchwork is elaborate. The whole dress is full of decorative design. In a word, clothes for spring and autumn feature pieced stitchwork, piped design, button loops, ornamental strings, embroidery and so on.

As for trousers, they often use white printed cloth on blue background or blue printed cloth on white background; the crotch of trousers is pieced together by using blue or black indanthrene cloth. Originally, dress was made of pieced cloth due to cloth width and for the purpose of saving material. Later, the purpose shifted from a practical need to an artistic creation. In either case, the beauty of neatness, balance and symmetry is taken into consideration.