Ancient Chinese clothing People in China generally wore tunics
(like long t-shirts). Women wore long tunics down to the ground,
with belts, and men wore shorter ones down to their knees.
Sometimes they wore jackets over their tunics. In the winter,
when it was cold, people wore padded jackets over their tunics,
and sometimes pants under them. In early China, poor people made
their clothes of hemp or ramie. Rich people wore silk. Most
people in China, both men and women, wore their hair long.
People said that you got your hair from your parents and so it
was disrespectful to cut it. In the Sung Dynasty, about 1100 AD,
a fashion started at the emperor's court for women to bind their
feet. Women thought that to be beautiful they needed little tiny
feet, only about three inches long. They got these tiny feet by
wrapping tight bandages around the feet of little girls, about
five or six years old. A shoe for someone with bound feet The
bandages were so tight they broke the girls’ toes and bent them
underneath their