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British rule also influenced hair fashion and clothing. Western accessories such as belts and leather shoes were commonly worn with "traditional" attire. [13] Cropped short hair, called bo ke (ဗိုလ်ကေ) replaced long hair as the norm among Burmese men. [12]
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Modern sumo wrestler Tochiazuma with an ōichō-style chonmage. In modern Japan, the only remaining wearers of the chonmage are sumo wrestlers and kabuki actors. [6] Given the uniqueness of the style in modern times, the Japan Sumo Association employs specialist hairdressers called tokoyama to cut and prepare sumo wrestlers' hair.
[4]: 138 [13]: 82 They viewed the Ming as having been affected by Mongolian customs in terms of clothing customs (e.g. with their hair hanging down the back, white teeth, short clothing, long sleeves, and bright and lustrous robes and caps) despite returning to the ways of Han and Tang and the people of Lao as wearing Indian-style clothing like ...
Prior to the 1700s, Thai men and women both kept their hair long. However, following the Burmese–Siamese wars of 1759-1760 and 1765–1767 and repeated Burmese invasions into Ayutthaya, central Thai women began cutting their hair in a crew-cut short style, which remained the national hairstyle until the 1900s. [4]
Napoleon himself, initially wearing long hair tied in a queue, changed his hairstyle and cut his hair short while in Egypt in 1798. [102] However, hair policy in the French army was not uniform; some regiments such as the Imperial Guard foot grenadiers stuck to queues long afterwards, while the 2nd Line Infantry kept their queues as late as 1812.
The Qing dynasty time to implement shaved hair and easy to dress, Shunzhi nine years (1652), the “dress color shoulder ordinance” promulgated, since the abolition of the Ming dynasty's crowns, gowns, and all the costumes of the Han, but the Manchu dress at the same time absorbed the texture pattern of the Ming dynasty dress. Ming dynasty ...
Sukhothai Men's clothing was a simple full-sleeved top with a long V shape neck and a cloth brace on their shoulders. The loincloth was made of silk with a big metal or golden belt. Women's clothing was a long silk sarong with flowers painted on it. The top normally is a full-sleeved silk cloth.