Thursday, August 5, 2010

Hanbok (traditional korean dress)

Hanbok is the traditional Korean dress.It is often characterized by the vibrant colours and simple lines without pockets.The Hanbok is worn during semi-formal or formal traditional festivals and celebrations and it is wore by women.A Hanbok is characterized by a two-piece outfit without pockets and buttons that is closed with strings, belts or cords. Men traditionally wore a "jeogori" (jacket), "baji" (trousers) and "durumagi" (overcoat) with a hat, belt and pair of shoes. The women wore a jeogori with two long ribbons tied to form a knot, a full length, high-waist wrap-around skirt called "chima" and"beoseon" (white cotton socks), and boat-shaped shoes.
The 5 different components of the Hanbok

The five different components are Jeogori, Chima, Baji, Po, Jokki and Magoja.
Jeogori
Jeogori is the basic upper garment of hanbok , which has been worn by both men and women. It covers the arms and upper part of the wearer's body. The basic form of the Jeogori is gil, git, dongeong, goreum and sleeves.
Gil (길) is the large section of the garment in both front and back side and git (깃) is a band of fabric that trims the collar. Dongjeong (동정) is a removable white collar placed over the end of the git and is generally squared off. The goreum (고름) are coat-strings that tie the jeogori.Women's jeogori may have kkeutdong (끝동), a different colored cuff placed at the end of the sleeves. There are several types of jeogori according to fabric, sewing technique, and shape.
Chima
Chima refers to "skirt" which is also called Sang (裳) or Gun (裙) in Hanja. The underskirt or petticoat layer is called Sokchima. Goguryo women wore a chima first, and then they wear a Jeogori over the Chima by covering its belt.
Baji
Baji mean pants which are used as today modern trousers.
Po
Po is referring to an outer robe, which is mostly wore by men. Durumagi is a variety of Po that was worn to protect the cold. It had been widely worn as an outer robe over Jeogori and Baji.
Jokki and Magoja
Jokki (조끼) is a type of vest while magoja is an outer jacket. Magoja is wore at time to protect cold weather of the region. It is good to keep warmth and it is easy to wear it. Magoja does not have git, band of fabric that trims the collar unlike Jeogori and Durumagi. Magoja was originally a male garment, but later became a unisex clothing. The magoja for men has seop (overlap column on the front) and its length is longer than the women's Magoja, so its both sides of the bottom are open. A Magoja is made of silk and is adorned with one or two buttons which are usually made from amber. In a male Magoja, buttons are attached to the right side on contrary to female Magoja. At first, women wore the Magoja for style rather than a daily outfit. Especially Kaeseong people used to wear it a lot too. It is made out of silk and the color of Magoja for women tends to be a neutral color to harmonize with other garments such as Jeogori and Chima which are worn together. In spring and autumn, a pastel tone is used for the women's Magoja, so that wearers could wear it over a Jeogori for style. As for men's Magoja is worn during spring and summer which colours are jade, green, gray and dark grey colours.

(Hanbok worn by woman)








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