BẠN THAM KHẢO

Normally, in daily life and work, Thai men wear short blouses, split chest, and split pants. The shirt has a round neck, no shoulders, two bottom and front pockets with fabric or bone buttons. The characteristic of men's blouses of Thai people in the Northwest region is not the tailoring style (because of the short varieties of Tay, Nung, Kinh...) but in the diverse colors of traditional fabrics of the bright community. creating: not only indigo, white but also coffee with milk, or squares with red, blue, and coffee yarns... During holidays and New Year's, they wear ao dai with right armpit slits. indigo color, head wrapped in a scarf, feet on clogs. During the funeral, they wear a variety of colorful clothes, contrasting colors with ordinary days with long, loose cuts, no underarms with different types: split chest, split armpit, pull head. In recent decades, it is quite common for Thai men to wear suits.
    Thai women's costumes are divided into two distinct categories according to the two branches of the Northwest, namely Thai Trang (Tay Khao) and Thai Den (Tay Dam).
    White Thai: Usually, White Thai women wear short blouses, black skirts without decorative patterns. The shirt is usually light, white, with silver buttons to shape butterflies, ticks, bees... The other thing that is unique to Thai Den is a V-shaped collar. The body of the shirt is shorter than the Kinh's blouse, posing tightly hugging the body. when worn inside the skirt waistband. The skirt is a closed skirt (tube), black color, inside the hem is red fabric. When wearing the crown and skirt, Thai women have a multi-colored decoration on the outside. The head scarf has no pattern but is just an indigo cloth with a length of about 2 meters... During the holidays they wear black ao dai. This is a straight top, no underarms, decorated with a 'close' fabric in the middle with tassels covering from the shoulder to the chest, the armpits are decorated in a way that meets two patterns in a triangular layout. . Unmarried women put their hair in a bun at the nape of their neck, with their husbands in a bun on top of their heads. They have wide-brimmed hats.
Black Thai: Usually, Black Thai women wear a short (moustache) dark color (indigo or black), with a different collar, the White Thai is a round, standing collar. The head wears a scarf embroidered with many decorative motifs in the style of each Muong. The skirt is the same type of white Thai woman mentioned above. The way to have married and unmarried hair is similar to the White Thai industry. During the ceremony, the Black Thai Ao Dai is diverse with different types of armpit splits, pullovers, and rich decorations in different colors and motifs than the White Thai.