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Famous Mini Skirt of Datang Miao Village in China

Datang Miao village famous for Traditional Short Skirt is located about 10 miles from Leishan village. It is well known because of the distinctive style of dress worn by Miao females in the village.

Size

The women of Datang Miao village are also known for their tradition of wearing miniskirts in both, heir traditional dance and in their daily life too. The miniskirt of miao women measures 15 to 16 centimeters in length and is made by 7 meters of local cloth mainly hand knitted cloth. In some instance skirt length may vary from 20 centimetres for married women to a hot 10 centimetres for young girls. Almost all the girls and women in Datang Miao Village wear such short skirts. Amazing fact is that they wear it all round the year even in cold season.

Their top is distinct and colorful for both casual and holiday wear. It has a tunic top decorated with silver ornaments and gorgeously hand-embroidered designs mainly of the dragon, phoenix, fish, bird, and beast. The sight of "miniskirts" is not unusual and erotic for people from west world but for the people from some conservative societies and countries, it may take some time to get used to as it does nto stand in line with instream Chinese practice of modesty.

History

During the Ming dynasty, females were highly expected to cover their bodies completely. Nothing was supposed to be exposed. The Miao females of Datang Village, in contrast to Chinese ethnic group and in contrast to their own Miao ethnic minority, started to wear the "miniskirt". Soon such miniskirts become famous and are famous till date. The reason or reasons why Miao females started to wear such mini skirts is still unknown. However it is guessed that it was an act of defiance against Ming Dynasty "Victorianism". Maybe they women wear this mini skirt to provide work facilitate in paddy field

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