Vietnamese lady in Le Dynasty.
This drawing portraits Vietnamese traditional clothes for citizen women in Ly Dynasty (1009-1225), which was called Tu Than. This costume contains various pieces, such as yem, outer shirt, Tu Than and Nam Than shirts, skirt, and rope.
- As for the top of the costume, generally, Yem was made with silk or cotton fabric as well as shade of colors, except black. Same thing went with the rope, which also was made with silk or oak silk with certain length to wrap two times around the body and put in front.
- As for the skirt, contained with three pieces, such as hem of skirt, skirt waistband and skirt body which longed to instep.
Moreover, Ly Dynasty's woman usually wore headband rope together with this clothes in their middle age and the rope had the length of 20 centimeters.
Artist: tranttbui aka Tran Bui.
