The skirt around the waist is also very unique: it reaches the knee, has a very thin brace, and various festoonery on both the brace and the girdle; around the skirt there is girdle, which is sewn with a big pocket and embroidered with all kinds of patterns.
The skirt design is very practical. When you wear aJuequn(a kind of skirt) in work, it can protect your waist and back from cold, and add to the strength of your waist when you stand up. The skirt has a big lower hem, which makes it easy to work in the paddy field and also serves as a cover when wearers piss in the field. It is really practical and beautiful as well.
Shoes in watery regions feature a strong local flavor, too. The shoe looks like a boat and has no distinction between left and right. Thus, it is also called boat-shaped embroidered shoe. Its upper is made from two pieces of cloth, and vamp is mainly covered with embroidery, bright in color and varied in pattern. The boat-shaped shoe is fine in workmanship, good looking, strong and practical. It is a traditional kind of shoe worn by women in the watery regions.
Requirements of women's garments vary with different ages. For young women, the dress should be as garish as possible. By making clever use of the limited space in the dress, and using various techniques such as color contrast, background setting-off and interleaving, etc., to achieve a conspicuous and garish effect, the dress highlights the physical beauty and decorative beauty of women in the watery regions, and airs a feeling of being light-footed, free and easy.
However, clothes for middle-aged and old women mainly adopt deep colors so that they look serious and stable. They are also loose and big, giving a sense of primitive simplicity and prudence.