Showing posts with label fashion. Show all posts
Showing posts with label fashion. Show all posts
Sunday, January 19, 2014
Hanbok Two
I promised I'd write again about Hanbok (Korean clothing). Here I am, finally getting around to it. This post should be read in the context of this post. Basically, I want to encourage everyday and casual incorporation of hanbok into your wardrobe. Hanbok works fine as an accompaniment to jeans, there is no reason to think of it as formal wear. Here are two photos of me wearing jeans with hanbok tops.
Yep, I should have spent more time ironing that one! But I've had it for about 15 years now, a testimony to the quality construction of many hanbok.
In addition to modeling another hanbok top + jeans combination in this photo, I am modeling my new glasses. I got a new prescription for the first time in 12 years, and my eyes had changed a lot, but it's been a cash-strapped fall so I didn't get the new glasses until the other day. What do you think? I couldn't see what they looked like on me, of course, so... well, they look much like other glasses I own.
Tuesday, November 12, 2013
Hanbok -- One
I have decided to periodically post some photos that could inspire people to consider new ways to incorporate hanbok into their fashion ensembles.
Hanbok (Korean traditional clothing) is generally worn as an entire outfit, not as a piece mixed with non-Korean clothes. Hanbok comes in three basic varieties: "traditional hanbok" (somewhat similar to the court hanbok of the past) and "gaeryang hanbok" (개량한복) (an updated and more colorful version of the peasant hanbok of the past), and "minbok," (민복) or peasant clothes, that are generally made from white cotton or unbleached hemp.
I own all three types of hanbok and have been wearing hanbok for years. But there are very few people who wear hanbok casually with non-Korean clothes (and it only really works with gaeryang hanbok). I'll go into more detail some day when I'm not preparing to leave for an international conference. Here is my example of the day, a gyaeran hanbok top instead of a suit jacket.
This next photo is a detail of how the hanbok top (meant to be worn over a dress) looks over a sweater with pants.
Hanbok (Korean traditional clothing) is generally worn as an entire outfit, not as a piece mixed with non-Korean clothes. Hanbok comes in three basic varieties: "traditional hanbok" (somewhat similar to the court hanbok of the past) and "gaeryang hanbok" (개량한복) (an updated and more colorful version of the peasant hanbok of the past), and "minbok," (민복) or peasant clothes, that are generally made from white cotton or unbleached hemp.
I own all three types of hanbok and have been wearing hanbok for years. But there are very few people who wear hanbok casually with non-Korean clothes (and it only really works with gaeryang hanbok). I'll go into more detail some day when I'm not preparing to leave for an international conference. Here is my example of the day, a gyaeran hanbok top instead of a suit jacket.
This next photo is a detail of how the hanbok top (meant to be worn over a dress) looks over a sweater with pants.
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