Tang Gaozong once wrote a letter saying that skirts and dresses in flowers are expensive and harmful to women workers. The day after tomorrow, my rival in love often wears a seven-point skirt. Don't you know that there are more gorgeous clothes, so be frugal. From this passage, we can know that flowered skirts were very popular in the early Tang Dynasty, and Wu Zetian, as the "queen of heaven", often wore a "seven-cut" skirt on weekdays. Moreover, the flowered skirt worn by Wu Zetian was sewn with only seven long colored silks, which was in line with the principle of thrift. At that time, the "gorgeous dress" was obviously far more than "seven broken".
In fact, there was an official rule in the Tang Dynasty that "all dresses of different colors should not exceed 12 pieces of rags", which shows that women's skirts at that time were often more than 12 pieces of rags, that is, a skirt was sewn with more than 12 pieces of silk of different colors. Luxurious Chinese skirts will be embroidered with gold thread at the seams, even with small flower buds made of pearls and jade, and the skirts will be embroidered with gorgeous decorations such as gold thread.
Similar to flowered skirts, they were also popular in the early Qing Dynasty. Its specific style is to cut colorful satin into long strips, each of which is decorated with exquisite embroidery, and then stitched together with gold thread at the seams. Because the colorful satin stripes on a skirt are juxtaposed, it is as gorgeous as a phoenix tail, hence the name "phoenix tail skirt". Later, the phoenix tail skirt was improved, and the waist of the skirt was wrinkled. At the same time, the ribbons on the tailored skirts are all elegant colors. As a result, the ribbon on the skirt is bright and dazzling, which sets each other off and becomes interesting, as unpredictable as moonlight. A skirt of this color is called a "moon skirt".