Historically, women skilled in Gelos textiles, embroidery, batik, therefore Gelos apparel fabrics are woven from dyed muslin since. Long ago, they will be able to weave a fine texture, soft muslin, they textile “Liao cloth” excellent quality, became feudal dynasty paid tribute. Qing Dynasty, Gelos women have mastered high weaving technology, textiles are also quite popular. Living in Zhijin, Guanling area Gelos women have been able to weave twill and very delicate “iron flute cloth.” Huang Ping’s Gelos also use wool skirts. Fifties of last century, older women in these areas will still weave “Liao cloth” (now used as thick as a canvas), the pattern is more than a “bucket pattern”, “denim”, “Gui pattern”, “stripes”, etc., dense durable, simple and generous.
According to historical records, in the past Gelos attire, both men and women the “skirts” for its outstanding features, with two horizontal cloth “rather consistently wear their song”, while others use a cloth across every joint is made. Such clothing without pleats, mezzanine, which after two straight narrow width slightly wider, narrow room are lined pattern, which is also called “Tong skirt.” Men generally wear “skirts” is shorter, women wearing “skirts” longer, and color range. History, but had different styles of clothing color into the Gelos “Green Gelo”, “red Gelo”, “flower Gelo”, “draped gowns Gelo” and so on.
Gelos women’s clothing
Gelos Men’s Apparel
Gelos clothing
With the development of social history, Gelos clothing has also undergone great variation. Around mid-nineteenth century, Gelos men wear breasted jacket, under the trousers, shoes or foot wear ingot cloud hook shoes. Women wear short waist jacket, embroidered with scaly pattern sleeve back, under a non-pleated long skirts. Skirts divided into three, down two stripes with homespun linen, wool woven into the middle line, and dyed red soil. Consistent head round neck sleeveless outer wear clothing, long and short in front, with a piece of blue cloth, embroidered shoes are worn rocker tip, wearing silver jewelry. Men and women are in long par header.
Modern Gelos traditional clothing is also very unique, collarless dajin woman wearing long-sleeved clothing, clothing accessories covered with rich layers of different themes or elongated diamond-shaped patterns, methods of batik and Caixiu. Under a pleated skirt, hook tip shoes, small apron tied at the waist, but also full of ornaments embroidered dyed. Men wear blue cloth breasted secret trip jacket, waist belt, pants, shoes. Men and women begin with flowers Pa header. Girls like to wear one kind of end is embroidered with red, yellow, green, purple and other colored lacy black headscarf decorated with silver jewelry.
As long Gelos staggered with the Han and other ethnic groups live together, and now in addition to the remains of this ancient festival attire, but their clothing and other local peoples have become more consistent. Men wear breasted jacket, trousers; women wear the right of junction dajin jacket, trousers, short and wide sleeves, lapel and ring epaulets broadside, short pants, trousers are narrow, young women like to wear skirt , shirts, jackets waistcoat.
Gelos clothing culture, not only retains the Gelo a traditional aesthetic, but also reflects their traditional base while retaining the ability to absorb, through innovative spirit.
