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In July 2022, Dior released the "Dior 2022 Autumn Ready-to-Wear Series", including a "mid-length skirt" priced as high as 29,000 yuan.
Dior's official product description is: This half skirt 's iconic Dior silhouette is a new elegant and fashionable item.
However, this design with smooth front and rear surfaces and pleated left and right sides is exactly the same as the traditional Chinese " horse-face skirt ". This made "Dior plagiarism" and "Dior cultural appropriation" trending on Weibo headlines, triggering a large number of netizens. intense discussion.
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▼Traditional Chinese horse-faced skirt
You must know that "horse-faced skirt" is one of the traditional Chinese costumes! ! !
What is a "horse face skirt"?
Horse-faced skirt, also known as "horse-faced pleated skirt", is one of the main skirt styles for women of Han nationality in ancient China. There are four skirt doors at the front and back, inside and outside, two of them overlap. The outer skirt door is decorated, and the inner skirt door There are few or no decorations. The horse-faced skirt is pleated on the sides, and the skirt waist is mostly made of white cloth, which means growing old together, and is tied with ropes or buttons.
Horse-faced skirts are divided into trapezoidal horse-shaped skirts and parallel horse-shaped skirts. The two are only different in shape. Parallel horse-shaped skirts mean that the pleats are even and the same width at the top and bottom, while the trapezoidal horse-shaped skirt is narrow on the top and wide on the bottom, showing an A-shape.
What is "horse face"?
Horse face, also known as enemy platform, pier, wall platform . Usually refers to the horse face of the ancient city wall. In the ancient times of China's cold weapons, in order to strengthen the defense capabilities of the city gates, many cities had more than two gates, forming a "barbican city ". The city walls were opened at certain distances. The rectangular pier is projected to facilitate the defender to attack the attacking enemy from the side, and this pier as a city defense facility is called a "horse face".
The Origin and Development of "Horse Face Skirt"
And The word "horse face" as a form of clothing first appeared in "History of the Ming Palace": "Yisa, its system has a continuous back skirt, and swings on both sides, with two front skirts. The origin of the horse-faced skirt can be traced back to my country's Song Dynasty, because the spiral skirts of the Song Dynasty already had the horse-faced shape of the horse-faced skirt.
The spiral skirt in the Song Dynasty developed into the Ming Dynasty, and gradually formed the horse-faced skirt. The horse-faced skirt of the Qing Dynasty, based on the skirt style of the Ming Dynasty, gradually developed into the daily wear of Han women in the Qing Dynasty through further evolution, and became the iconic skirt style of women in the Qing Dynasty.
To this day, the style of the horse-faced skirt has undergone a series of changes and has a variety of rich color patterns, but its "horse-faced" structure has always been deeply rooted.
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