Molding development of Chinese dress and its cutting technology

Based on the research into various kinds of Chinese dress collected and kept in the Folk Costume Exhibition and Learning Hall of Jiangnan University and Shanghai Yifengtang Museum,this article introduces Chinese dress in terms of the molding development,innovation in cutting technology,decoration process from ″complexity to simplicity″,molding construction from ″square shoulder connected with sleeves to sloping shoulder connected with sleeves ″,and from ″without dart to with dart″.It points out that the modern Chinese dress is a classical work combining the Chinese style with the western one,successfully completing the transformation from Chinese traditional ″plane molding″ to western ″stereo molding″ and ending the period of ″adapting person to dress″ and opening the new era of ″ adapting dress to person″.