Pretty Women In Traditional Asian Clothing

[Guest SaLina]

aw...all so pretty..ehe hi love anicet clothing.. *sigh*..ehhe ..all so goreous and pretty..

[lilshinhwafreak]

here's my share

^boa with modern hanbok

^wonbin

^choi jin shil

^ DBSG

^shinhwa

creds to yahoo

[Guest Malice_Kaiser]

^ XD So cute!

[Guest PinK_Hart X]

mika nakashima

[Guest mystic lotus]

^ wow, those kimonos are gorgeous~!

but my favorite is definitely the Hanfu. so elegant <3

I admit that I don't like Hanboks much... but they are alright.

[Guest by.your.side]

WAHHH SOOO NICE. EVERYTHING!

damnn..i want my own hanbok now. ne way. i member someone telling me this but i just wanted to know if it was true.

i heard that the kimono was actually long long long time ago what the koreans used to wear at a funeral. but the japanese people took that design and added silk and stuff.

is that true? cause i mean the japanese people took alot of stuff from everyone. haha BUT i love kimono bahh i wish i had one too. hahaha

and teh chinese wow...soo nicee! if i was a guy haha i'd find it soo sexually appealing in a way. hahha but im not.

dbsk and shinhwa look SOO cute in those hanboks. *runs over to them*

[Guest mystic lotus]

i heard that the kimono was actually long long long time ago what the koreans used to wear at a funeral. but the japanese people took that design and added silk and stuff.

is that true? cause i mean the japanese people took alot of stuff from everyone.

I really doubt that's true.

The kimono was influenced by the hanfu.

& yeah, a lot of cultures have been heavily influenced

by the Chinese; that's nothing new.

It isn't just the Japanese...

[Guest diligence312]

omg i love the chinese clothings!!!

[Guest boblovesbacon]

cause i mean the japanese people took alot of stuff from everyone.

wow that sounded wrong.

[Guest MzBeciko]

^ wow, those kimonos are gorgeous~!

but my favorite is definitely the Hanfu. so elegant <3

I admit that I don't like Hanboks much... but they are alright.

[SaturnCharm]

all these dresses are sooo pretty

i dont know if this is a stupid question but are phillipino people asian? ive always considered them to be asian but then someone comes up to me saying they are pacific islanders and not asians. im so confused. would anyone like to correct me???????????

if you were to ask this question in the philippines they would say that they are asian.

Anyway, this is a barong tagalog. Filipino guys wear this when it's a special occasion. For weddings, birthdays, funerial, all that stuff. It can be in different colors but it's mostly in white and the pants to match it gotta be black.

Traditional filipino female outfits turned modern.

[vanny_09]

North Vietnamese womens wear the same ao dai but the front is slipt in half and it called "Ao Tu Than" and they have a big hat as you can see..... pretty huh??... ^^ i like the other too...

[Guest cherries]

the chineese ones are so pretty!

makes me want to wear them too

[Guest yonsu]

I did a project on the Hanbok for Geography class a few years ago. The values and symbollic meaning behind each color and image are astounding. It's actually to my understanding that the Hanbok was most heavily influenced by the Mongols. Koreans were introduced to silk under the Tang Kingdom, but the style was adopted while Korea was a vassal state of the Mongolian Yuan Kingdom.

By the way, if any of you ever go to Japan and see everyday Kimonos, you'll find that they really aren't as gorgeous as the media portrays them to be. Really plain and makes the figure look mishapen.. I'm not talking about the ones that Geishas wear either.

[Guest acestro]

so pretty

[Guest xl0v3juicy]

I think the hanfu is GORGEOUS. Unfortuneately, traditional chinese clothing is represented by the qipao . In my opinion, i think that the indian clothing is way over done. the glitter / jewelery is too much for me. On the other hand, i'm LOVING the simplicity and solid colors of the hanbok . it's soo cute (especially the ones with the stripes on the sleeves).

[Guest Tami]

By the way, if any of you ever go to Japan and see everyday Kimonos, you'll find that they really aren't as gorgeous as the media portrays them to be. Really plain and makes the figure look mishapen.. I'm not talking about the ones that Geishas wear either.

Those would probably be yukata. Furisode and such are the ones Geisha wear and they're usually reserved for ceremonies, while yukata are more everyday wear.

[marcs.lover]

All of them are unique and special in their own ways, but my fave is Chinese. They come in a wide variety.

[Guest ginachan]

TRADITIONAL BALINESE [iNDONESIAN] CLOTHING

(BALINESE KIDS)

[Guest precious4e]

It was hard finding pictures that haven't already been used, so I found some paintings

Credits: some pictures were from www.concentric.net/ ~Artfaire/index1.html.. i can't remember where i got the rest

oohhh those paintings are from Caroline Young.. I love her art work... its all Asian themed and focus on the traditional folktales!! here's the link

http://www.carolineyoung.com/

the Dream of the Red Chamber series is my favorite!!

and here's a pic from Memoirs of a Geisha to contribute to the thread!