Study on molding types and development of horse-face skirt in modern times

The purpose of this research is to display the characteristics and development rule of the horse-face skirts in modern China through empirical analysis and parameter measurement of them. On the basis of various kinds of Chinese horse-face skirts collected in the Folk Costume Exhibition and Learning Hall of Jiangnan University and Shanghai Yifengtang Museum,this thesis analyzes the structure and the tailor technology of the hundred-pleat skirt,one-piece dress and the phoenix-tail skirt in the early republic of China. It points out that the skirt profile from loose type with more pleats to fit type with less pleats,the pattern from an over-elaborate skirt cut in many pieces to a simple skirt cut in four pieces,the tailoring from the traditional two-dimensional molding to western three-dimensional ways. The empirical study of the hundred-pleat skirt,phoenix-tail skirt,one-piece dress and cylinder-type waist skirts has analyzed their molding and structure,along with the development process of the molding and structure of the traditional horse-face skirt under the impact that the ″Western culture gradually walks to the East″.