Chest-length skirt is a unique name for women's clothing in Sui, Tang and Five Dynasties. Generally, it is worn as a cardigan with a lower skirt, or as a lapel with a lower skirt, which is a chest-length skirt. Chest-length shirts and skirts are one of the traditional costumes of the Han nationality. From the Han and Jin dynasties, skirts were tied at the waist, while skirts in the Sui, Tang and Five Dynasties were tied higher, and many of them were on the chest.
In the history of some clothes, it is usually called high-waisted tops and skirts. According to people's textual research on it now, it is generally renamed as a chest top and skirt. Chest-length tops and skirts have been unearthed, and two Tang skirts have been unearthed from the Tang tomb in Astana, Xinjiang. Due to the misleading of some merchants, the chest-length skirt is often mistakenly called the chest-length skirt, and the correct name is the chest-length skirt.
Classification of chest-length skirts:
Chest skirts are generally divided into two types, one is a double-breasted shirt skirt, and the other is a cross-collared chest skirt. Generally speaking, double-breasted shirt skirts are more widely used. Chest-length skirts are very popular among ladies in the Tang Dynasty, and they are found in many ancient paintings and unearthed cultural relics.