Cultural features in the way of clothing of Korean and Vietnamese traditional cultures

Abstract

The demand for clothing belongs to the need to ensure the survival of humans and human society. Clothing is the cultural achievements dealing with the natural environment. Together with social development process, clothes serve as signaling messages about social status, profession, economic conditions, aesthetic taste of the wearer. Therefore, in the basic structure of the culture of physical life organization, clothing – one of the three basic needs (food, shelter, clothing) deeply expresses cultural characteristics of the subject. This paper presents striking cultural features of Vietnamese and Korean civilians’ everyday clothing in Vietnamese and Korean traditional culture periods (before exposure to Western culture).