Do not know ever mentioning her shirt three people immediately think of the pure beauty, simplicity, gentleness of the South Vietnamese women, especially in the hick, the fields of the same Mekong River, create charm that is nowhere near comparable.
So far, the origin of this costume is still mixed. It is said that the Ba Ba dress appeared first in the South in the Late Le dynasty because of the resemblance to the "round-necked man, narrow-mouthed, narrow-sleeved" shirt that the old book said to be Le Quy Don. costumes for the Dang people in the late 18th century. There is also another opinion that the Ba Ba dress appeared in the first half of the 19th century, was renovated by the scholar Truong Vinh Ky from the shirt of Malaysian Chinese Chinese to fit the body. Vietnamese figure.
The classic Ba Ba shirt is a shirt with no neck. The back of the shirt is sewn by a piece of raw fabric, the front consists of two pieces, in the middle there are two button strips running from the top down. Shirt chit waist, sawing just right on both sides. The length of the shirt just covers the buttocks, almost tight. The shirt is often combined with long black pants with dots on the ankles or heels that beautify the figure of a woman with a gentle, elegant and soft bee back. When going out, people in the Mekong Delta often choose shirts with gentle colors like white or inert gray ...
Clothes worn three days ago she often dyed black, brown. When there was no chemical dye, people used to use eagle leaf, brooch, black skin, parrot shell, left-handed skin ... dyed and then covered with mud to stop discoloration. When imported fabric, the use of peat, litchi, black jeans, because this color is suitable for working conditions, traveling in rivers, canals, mud, easy to wash and dry quickly.
Nowadays, Ba Ba Ao is not designed straight, wider and narrowly sewn, pressing more waist, chest waist to hug the body. The designers have cleverly "broke the way" and added more colors, patterns, motifs to make her shirt more vivid.
In addition, the people who improve the ao dai, ba ba focus on the creation of shoulder, wrist, arm door styles ... These improvements in the context of the wider use of the ao dai, tailoring with many foreign fabric items, especially, at this time, the woman has acquired and used quite a lot of modern day corsets. She improved her clothes to pay attention to the types of buffalo (neck), such as lotus leaves, swallow wings, religious knitting ... are the types of necks that have flipped veins, absorbed from foreign clothes.
The manual assembly method has also been improved. From the old style of sewing blouses, connecting the body with the hands, people think of a way to assemble the sleeves at the edge of the sleeve. In particular, in the 1970s, southern cities popularized the raglan hand-stitching style, creating a modern beauty for the traditional ao dai and ba ba. With this raglan shoulder type, the front and back body of the shirt are separated from the shoulders and sleeves, while the sleeves and tops are from neck to armpit. This three raglan shoulders just need to sew tight, fit the waist, not too tight like the previous shirt. The sleeves are longer but slightly flared, sometimes leaving both pockets on the front flap to create a softer, softer body.
This is also the period when beautiful foreign fabrics spread to the South market with a variety of colors. The women, they often choose rows of téttong, soa, mousơlin ... to sew this kind of turtlenecks. To combine with her father, people also choose the number of garments to sew the bottom-connecting pants, sew slightly close to the buttocks, the flared tube, to create a soft, discreet and gentle appearance of the woman ".
Nowadays, rural women in the South often wear brown trouser and black pants, young people are tending to wear thick, multicolored, shirts and pants (instead of single black). tone) fit, fit, look healthy, consistent with the lifestyle of the industry is gradually forming.
And if in the North, there were the phrases "the four-body shirt with the ponytail", the people of the South were more rustic with the phrase "I miss my father" and melodious with the words "The lady's shirt on the river" chasms. A glimpse of the small and fragile canoe. Tilted conical hats disdain children. Hau Giang, I'm still beautiful for thousands of years "...
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