Costume designer Lin Chin-ju thumbed through several books searching for costumes befitting women of the T'ang dynasty (A.D. 618--A.D. 907), and found that clothing of the period closely resembled traditional Japanese and Korean attire.
此外，戲服的樣式也讓她花費許多心思考證。現存唐朝仕女圖中，衣服款式近似日本和服和韓國傳統服飾。