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The beauty secret of Hmong women
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Northwest of Vietnam possesses not only the imposing and majestic nature, but also colorful pleated skirts, earrings or necklaces of Hmong women, which create an everyday beauty bewitching all the tourists setting foot on this island.
The “treasure” skirt The cultivation of flax and linen weaving of Hmong people has longstanding history. In Hmong villages, almost every family has its own weaving loom and supplies. Hmong women are always able to get their weaving done with beautiful products no matter where they ate, at front doors, part house, next to the windows or on the side of roads or right at the market … As having leisure after harvest time, they enlist in tearing linen fibers into thin strips, decorating them with patterns then sewing shirts or skirts for their children to wear in the first day of school or for the upcoming markets. For those who ever visited Hmong house, besides cooking fires glowing with red coals and big bags of corn – the only home-store food, they would see colored skirts hanging in bunches in the corner of the house. These skirts are not things that should be hidden away like what lowlanders often do to their clothes; on the contrary, they are shown off as a precious thing, a little property of highland ladies.  Traditional skirts of H'Mong women According to Hmong conception, groom and bride must wear linen clothes woven by the bride on their wedding day. The weaving here shows the skillfulness and hard-working ??? one of the criteria to evaluate the talent, virtue and living way of a woman. Moreover, when a Hmong man passes away, he (she) must be dressed in linen clothes, this allows him (her) to reunite with ancestors. |
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