Both photos were taken with my family members. The first black and white photo was from my great-grandmother. This is a family photo, and I took one of them separately. The right side of the photo shows the year of the year, the Spring Festival in 1983. I heard my mother said that this picture was taken not long after the great-grandfather died, so the great-grandmother wore a black coat and black hat and black pants. In modern China, people are accustomed to wear a black dress or have a black wristband after the death of their family members to express their miss for their family members and to accompany the dead family members to the last minute. In Chinese history a little further afield, people generally wear white clothes when their family members die. But black and white represent funerals in China, just the difference between North and South.
The great-grandmother’s clothes are very simple, that is, a black shirt with a white shirt in it, which looks very traditional in Chinese clothing. Socks don’t have the elastic mouth like current socks, but are straight and tucked directly into the pants. Because there will be a few more rounds of black gauze around the trousers to tighten the trousers. Perhaps the most characteristic are the shoes and feet of the great-grandmother. This is a bad practice in China — foot binding. This bad practice is very old in China. He stopped when the People’s Republic of China was founded. The reason for foot binding is actually that men think that it ’s beautiful to turn female feet into small feet, so girls need to have foot binding from a very young age. Tightly, if some girls are born with large feet, they also need to artificially destroy the toes or heels, reaching 20-23 cm.
The second picture is my mother, when New China was established. Everyone’s clothing has been opened. Instead of sticking to clothes and trousers, women are wearing more and more skirts. Mom said that the most popular clothing that year was like this with a lot of patterns on it, so she bought this skirt. That year was 1990. When the mother was just 18 years old, she began to tattoo her eyebrows and inner eyeliner, that is, to make heavy makeup. I do n’t know if it was because of the influence of western culture. But everyone does not know that this is permanent, so mother still has dark blue inner eyeliner and beauty, but mother is born beautiful, these things can not stop the release of her beauty. The eighteen-year-old mother experienced the most popular fashion in China at that time, probably because of her natural love for beauty, which also led her to appreciate clothes now and still not lose to young people. But when I first saw this photo, I couldn’t believe she was 18 years old and too mature. When she recalled the materials made by this skirt, she mentioned that this was a skirt made of pure cloth, but the printing was slightly new, but the material was still monotonous. The pattern printed on the skirt is not very clear, but it can be felt from the color when it is very rich, including blue, black, white and brown-red. The whole skirt set her lively and lovely against her. This is my mother’s favorite skirt. She is also praised by his friends for wearing this skirt. She has a very good figure, coupled with black and long straight hair and a smile that can melt the heart. It is very suitable to be a model. So she is proud and has the idea to get involved in fashion.
