Ethnic Influences on Apparel Design

We see influences on apparel design come from all directions, different countries such as China, India , Mexico and the European. Since this week we are talking about ethnic influences on apparel, I thought of my country, Vietnam, my country is very small that is why we never heard that much about the fashion trends from there.
We might not see that much of the influence from Vietnamese fashion to other countries. However Vietnam fashion trends are just like other countries around the world. The economy had change to very staple and moving really fast, so the fashion also changed during the years. Our traditional dress had change to different trends because of the influence from other countries and the modern life styles.
Recently, in Miss Universe in Vietnam, there are a part where all the participants in the contest wear the traditional Vietnamese long dress called “Ao Dai”.

Miss Universe In Vietname


The real Traditional dress (ao dai) is very short, and it looks like this.
(This is a picture in UNCC Vietnight )










Some of the designers make a lot of changes, with the influence of the western world, and other part of the world. The dress changes in many ways, the long sleeves is no longer the same size, it is either longer, wider or none. The designer created a different looks to the dress, make it more modern and stylish. The dress is now also can be wear as a evening dress, or an big events. Even though it had changed, the some images of the traditional dress is still alive in each of the dress.


This is a Fashion Show in Korea with Korean Models in summer 2007 and the designer is Thai Nguyen


I hope you all learn a little about Vietnamese traditional outfit in my blog and also the changes to the Fashion on the Vietnamese traditional dress .