Board Thread:Custom Lore Development/@comment-26535281-20160827230131

Fashion in Xin can vary heavily depending on province and status. But I will give a brief run down here.

Lower classes:

The lower classes wear basic robes with a brown tint to them. Although some have access to better fabric and colors leading to a mishmash of colors.

General head wear is a conical hat, leather cap, kasa (Hat), or nothing at all.

Hair style is simple really. They can have their hair in a Queue style, Chupryna, short hair, or they could just be bald. Women normally have a simple bun normally.

Accessories generally are rather plain. Most being cheap bronze or tin rings and bracelets.

Middle classes:

The middle classes wear much more ornate robes then the lower classes generally in red, black, and green shades. They also have designs in the fabric and trimming.

General head wear is a nice kasa hat or a printers hat (A box shaped hat normally red.) Women and monks can also wear chadors. Lower ranking officials wear a small cap:

Hair style is in the style of top knots (Chonmage) for males with small pendants but lower ranking officials wear more ornate hair pins. Women have a wide variety of styles:

The middle classes have access to necklaces of jade and silver and maybe a few gold rings.

Upper classes:

The upper classes wear ornate long flowing robes. In the imperial colors of yellow, blue, and red. They have access to all kinds of fabrics and make sure they look their best when ever possible.

Most of the upper class do not wear any form of hats or caps but when they do it is either an ornate printers cap or small round caps bejeweled.

The Hair styles can at times seem wacky to westerners (Mainly females). Males generally wear a topknot with very ornate hair pins (Normally in the shape of a dragon.)

The upper classes have access to all sorts of valuable and rare materials. They adore their rings, necklaces, and tiaras in the finest gems and gold.

Notes:

All social classes wear white to funerals.

All Xinese citizens no matter class are expected to keep their hair well kept.

Only the upper classes may wear a Chonmage.

Compared to the peasants of the west the Xinese lower classes are rather well off. 