#hanfu cloaks

[sasukimimochi]

Some extra versions of this with them facing each other [sort of haha] as compensation for allowing my hanfu screw up to be on tumblr for 24 hours LMAO [i don't regret these tho]

I decided to write a blurb with it ;] check under the cut for it! It's written based on my fic but that doesn't mean it's canon, just consider this a treat bc i really wanted to write it, and if it shows up somehow in the fic it shows up somehow >:)

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Lan Wangji was walking side-by-side down the street with his companion, staring ahead as he thought of their next move. His attention was drawn however as Wei Wuxian pressed into his side, hugging his arm and smiling while pointing out a nearby Jewelry stall. “Look at those Lan Zhan!” and he was soon dragged over, ears and cheeks so lightly dusted with pinks it wouldn’t be visible on first glance.

Lan Wangji was quiet, watching Wei Wuxian instead of asking him why he wanted to come over to look at jewelry and rouge. He calmly watched the other gaze at the small, delicate earrings and different colors of rouge, Not even realizing how softened his expression had become.

Wei Wuxian lifted a pair of earrings that were delicate, adorned with red, gold, and mother of pearl. “Look at these, Lan Zhan. Wouldn’t these be pretty on me?” He turned his head to grin at the other man, only to pause and smile even wider. “Lan Zhan! Are you blushing??”

Lan Wangji’s eyes widened minutely. Was he? “No.” He turned his head, avoiding eye contact with the other.

“Should I expect the world to collapse soon?” Wei Wuxian teased, a laugh escaping his throat at what he felt was likely a lie from the man. He couldn’t remember when he became quite this good at reading the other’s face, but he wasn’t complaining. “Have I finally warmed this cold jade’s heart?”

“Wei Ying…” Lan Wangji sighed subtly exasperation, “If you’re not going to buy anything, we should go.”

Wei Wuxian’s eyes turned up in crescents, unable to help the mirth bubbling up from his chest in waves. “Hey, I never said I didn’t want anything! But it’s fine, You’ve already spoiled this stray so much.” He pats his chest, then places the earrings back down. “Robes, a ribbon, earrings, a hanfu cloak, shoes! As much as these are lovely, I couldn’t ask for more.”

Lan Wangji picked up the earrings and a rouge that matched well his companion’s skin tone. “There is no need to ask.” He quietly answered, handing payment to the vendor and walking away from the stand after placing the two items in Wei Wuxian’s hands.

Wei Wuxian was stunned for a brief few seconds, but then snapped out of it just in time to run after the other. “Lan Zhan! You really didn’t have to!”

He fiddled with the small box and small tin of rouge, walking in silence beside the other for a while. It didn’t take him long however to spiral into his so called bad habit he hadn’t been able to shake since his awakening- flirting with Lan Wangji relentlessly. “If you wanted to see rouge on my lips you could have just said so.” His grin turned awfully pleased when he managed to darken the color on the jade’s ears further. “Did you want me to try it out just for you?”

Lan Wangji’s short fuse was immediately burned out. “Shameless.” He muttered, trying to find an out. “We’re in public.”

“Wow, bold Lan Zhan. You want me to show you in private?” Despite how shameless he acted, that one even made him flush in quite a deep color. He laughed it off however, running ahead and pretending like he was just being his old naïve self again, despite knowing better.

Lan Wangji had never been so publicly scandalized.

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#mdzs fic #mdzs #gom fic #my fic :] #wangxian #lan wangji #lan zhan #wei ying #wei wuxian #hanfu #chinese hanfu #earrings #cloaks #hanfu cloaks #Ghost of Mine #extras!! #i love these even though they may not be actual scenarios in the fic #let me dream #i hope u like them tho #writing blurb #fic #relentless flirting #blushy wangxian #rouge

[jayswing101]

Fill for G1 - Black Cloaked Envoy on my Guardian Bingo Card!

The base pattern is taken from this daxiushan (大袖衫) pattern. To make this daxiushan (Heipaoshi's Version), I shortened the sleeves a bit, added extra length to the body, added a hood, and added the weird gauzy bits on the back. I also added some cording on the shoulders and the sides of the hood, following the design from the show as closely as I could. You'll also notice a couple decorative bands of black ribbon on the chest and at the waist, as well as a square of skightly different black fabric on the back — these are also embellishments added to follow the model in the drama.

Fabric: raw silk noil, cotton lining in the hood, a silk habotai square, silk gauze, silk ribbons, cotton cording. Entirely handsewn using waxed black linen thread.

#guardian #heipaoshi #guardianbingofest #cosplay #(ish) #fanARTifact #handmade #modified hanfu #this was my first time making anything other than a basic circle/half circle skirt and it was very fun and im very happy with the result #there are places i could for sure improve for next time (and there will be a next time - this is one of the comfiest things I've ever worn) #but for my first time drafting a pattern and sewing anything more complex than a circle skirt #i say this is a job very well done #also the hood was so scary but it was actually pretty simple to make!! it's also GIANT #i could for sure hide a big black cat in there no problem #i am also planning on making the rest of heipaoshi's outfit (belt and little hand guards and all!) #we're posting just the cloak bit and calling that square filled bc i won't have the rest finished before the end of January 😅 #but i keep getting intimidated by the closures on the yuanlingpao im making and then not sewing for months on end so. #jaysart

[hanfugallery]

chinese hanfu by 陌苒

#china #hanfu #fashion #chinese fashion #winter #cloak #doupeng

[shamera]

Keychains from @lightningstrikes-art came in today!! ٩(◕‿◕)۶ they are so so cute omgggg (no dmg, the bubbles are bc i haven't peeled the plastic layer yet)

#sctir #fan merch #WHEN will i stop buying fan merch i dunno #i couldn't get the stickers because two were sold out ^^;; #i need a bigger itabag now #hubby says just get a second one and pick and choose #but how can i pick and choose #(also he threw the package at me while i was making the bed today) #(but when i was looking up frames for the prints he also gave me another package that came in) #(it was a hooded winter cloak!! perfect for hanfus!! ombre and had butterflies!) #(he said he saw it and it was too pretty to pass up) #(i love him thiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiis much!)

[soo-won]

the knot evolved omg

#soowon #suwon #im a bit oh:( bc it was the same as yonhi before i thought it was sweet... #but if you reach you can still say the new one is like yonhi's first earrings when she met yuhon. #but it's def a reach. #btw i love the motifs of his hanfu in c243. thats smth positive i can confidently say about it. #and i was very happy to see him with his cloak again #sorry this is probably crazy to even point out a detail like that. actually i noticed it two weeks ago i was just too depressed to say it #don't cornplate me please

[gornackeaterofworlds]

The least fancy of her fancy clothes

#cooking up a lot of hanfu and kimono for her after i started this #i also didnt feel like fully rendering it like normal #gornack art tag #butterfly effect au #caiji!!!! cloaked!!!! #gornack click to see details tag #do we want to see a little exposition on how cloaking devices work now or when the first arc is over #which would be a few chapters from now #tmnt oc #tmnt iteration oc #cloaking brooch #tmnt iteration

[fashionhanfu]

#hanfu #chinese dress #cloak

[ladyimaginarium]

im. shook by how long this is DFGGHFHGGJHGJHHHHJHJHHHGHHHJ

#arcana.uploads #cloak came in !! the doupeng is a winter cape or cloak originating from china !! #WAAAAAAAY warmer than my& actual coat lmao #tbh ive been debating getting hanfu related stuff for a while but i finally said why not especially bc it's an open culture #& as an indigenous person it's showing respect for another culture !! #& not to mention our& sibling sys who's mixed chinese said as long as you're being respectful of the cultureyou're fine !! #& as sb who's learning mandarin & eventually plans on traveling to china at some point w/ our& sibling sys for a trip it's good practice!! #we said if we'd go in winter we'd wear doupeng SDFFGHLLLITDDFGJJGGHKJH btw if ur reading this anderson ilyyyyyy /fam

[kingsandbastardz]

So for basically my whole life I'd grown up with and was resigned to accept that the chinese concept of formal/nice clothing of my and the previous generation has been western clothes. So at any awards ceremonies or performances, entertainers would show up mostly in western suits/dresses and maaaaaybe you'll spot the occasional cheongsam if they're going for a Wong Fei Hong vibe. Which, you know, kinda sucks if you have any concept of western cultural imperialism in asia.

So when the hanfu revivalist movement started, I was waiting to see when it would enter the mainstream -- my hope was for fashion designers to integrate traditional/dynastic elements into their work and make it common place enough that I can buy this shit online for ME. Because I WANT.

Though some of the designs can be a bit hit or miss, I am LOVING what various stars and entertainers are wearing out and about now.

Anyway - here's a collection of Xiao Shunyao's modern hanfu inspired/hybridized stage outfits from the last couple years. For his MLC performances, his stylists seem to be borrowing inspiration from his Di Feisheng and possibly other character costume silhouettes.

I'd been seeing a few comments about how his outfits play with gender - and some of his outfits do! But I think the interesting thing to discuss is from which standard is he playing with gender? Because from a western perspective, the things he does with his western suit tops, belting on top of the jacket for a tightly cinched waist, and the addition of a trailing skirt = femme. But if you're talking from a hanfu-hybridized pov, that's just a modern take on hanfu and having any of those elements is not inherently femme and would often read masc to me.

So these things aren't necessarily gendered because they exist traditionally in chinese men's clothing or costume designs (ie video games, comics, historical fiction illustrations and film, etc, so therefore in the modern lexicon of masculine/acceptable for men):

presence or lack of a skirt

silky, velvety, gauzy or sparkly material choice, esp in formal or stage clothing

short or long length of skirt

embroidery

flowers/floral/bird designs

folding fans

certain styles of makeup

beading, gold, tassels, jewels

non-chunky jewelry

headbands

widely flowing silhouettes

What XSY's stylists are doing with some western clothing items are interesting. I'm convinced there have been one or two western jacket tops made of thinner material that they're folding over the front, and belting down instead of buttoning (which then matches with his other outfits that are designed specifically to do this). Then they're adding a skirt, cloak or bracer element to it.

The western portions often bring a military minimalist feel which they balance with a more gauzy material in the skirt or cloak portions.

Things I think are playing with gender:

row 1 - image 1: red di feisheng-inspired outfit

The lace-up girdle is there to match the bracers in both material and style. And it's positioned to be similar to the heavy belt that Di Feisheng wears. HOWEVER. That style of girdle/corset-like clothing item can't be divorced from the modern idea of sexy leather corsets. So imo, this waist piece on that outfit was a choice. Especially when paired with his allergic-to-collars-higher-than-his-sternum necklines. And if you take into context how masculine yet female coded his character is in the drama, the whole look evokes that.

row 2, image 1: black western suit with belt on top, hat, cloak, black boots and not-visible but also a black tassel fringe skirt

Hat and cloak moves the intention of the outfit from western toward a more Asian slant, because alone, it looks like a western black suit with western heeled boots, cinched waist with a lady's belt (seated photoshoot) and western style tassel skirt. The suit top consists of a vest and a shrug-like sleeve portion that appears masculine at first glance. But take the shrug and pair it with the tassel skirt (I can't find the red carpet photos but here is a better view of the skirt when seated), and I think you got a look that's both intentionally edging toward the femme in a western sense but also confusing matters by hiding within the parameters of both western and chinese traditional male styling.

row 2 - image 2 : white asymetrical western jacket styled in a front fold-over style, gauze skirt, trailing pearl embellishments

The more traditional leaning version of this is the white outfit in row 3 that he wears to the Hi6 Hello Saturday variety show -- the skirt portion on that outfit is one I'd consider non-gendered. Row 1, images 2 and 3 are examples of masculine/neutral uses of gauze that plays with flow of form but isn't inherently femme. This stage outfit is very western-appearing masculine suiting, until you hit the skirt which is giving me long ballerina tie-on skirt with the additional swan/mermaid pearl strings. Imo, another example of deliberately using traditional masculine styling but switching it up with the combination of material choice and make that is feminine.

row 2, image 3: black space military boots, black suiting, black -silver ombre sequin trailing skirt and white gauzy shawl with black floral design

The over all design is going for a masculine military-feel. (think this outfit for shen langhun) But instead of a thicker military cloak, it's replaced with a woman's gauze shawl and a skirt that trails behind him very much like the back of a woman's formal fish-tail gown when he moves around. If you take into context Wang Herun's outfit is a white-silver sequined dress cut in a way to also give a space-military-queen vibe, imo they both coordinated their outfits to balance out with both femme and masc qualities.

Thoughts? I'm curious what others think about this.

While I wait for the CNY photoshoot for XSY's red and black look, here's him with his stage collaborators with a nice range of skirt lengths, period influences and material choices. The woman in the center is the one with the most military-fighter design out of the bunch. The dudes are all in variations of formal-wear-with-good-kicking-boots (and lots of crotch space).

#xiao shunyao #mysterious lotus casebook cast #my royal ramblings #fashion #chinese fashion #gendered fashion in cultural context

[buried-in-stardust]

Wearing a doupeng (斗篷; cloak) with hanfu

#douyin #clothing #hanfu #creator: 冬眠宇

[antidotefortheawkward-art]

兔儿神祝同志们年快乐！Happy New Years from Tu'Er Shen!

[ID: The Bugs Bunny "I wish all a very pleasant evening" meme, but edited to say "I wish all who celebrate Year of the Rabbit a very something LGBT happens to you." Instead of Bugs Bunny, there is a drawing of Tu'Er Shen. Tu'Er Shen, a Chinese deity presiding over gay love, is a rabbit god wearing festive red new years hanfu, including a big fur cloak. He is depicted with light skin, brown eyes, and dark hair which is worn in a way which obscures where human ears usually would be. He has two light brown rabbit ears sticking out of the top of his head. End ID]

#my art #lunar new year #chinese new year #year of the rabbit #tu'er shen #chinese mythology #cny #i have been waiting to make this joke for literal years. #sorry for being a day late despite that gfdhsjkdsjdksd #chinese caption technically says 'tu'er shen wishes all comrades a happy new year' bc comrades is slang for gay ppl ✌️

[sasukimimochi]

Surprise! I hated the original art of their hanfu cloaks/earrings in CH 1 of Ghost of Mine so i redid it! I also included a couple bonuses, which is a reference and a blushy version for fun. I needed to redesign my LWJ so this was a good op to do it & it was a good chance to properly pick out colors haha, also you get to see my headcanon for book lwj's eye color :D i never imagined them yellow but all the art has them in a variation of it, i just always imagined them icy bc of being compared to frost.. I hope you guys like it :D

Edit: fixed wwx's hanfu it was backwards :'] i flip the canvas too much

#mdzs fic #mdzs #gom fic #my fic :] #wangxian #lan wangji #lan zhan #wei ying #wei wuxian #hanfu #chinese hanfu #earrings #cloaks #hanfu cloaks #Ghost of Mine

[jardinvrm]

Harumi and Fuyumi outfits! all these are for future references for the fanfiction! I've mentioned each meaning and context behind each one, but if you're interested so much, I'll explain in further details in under the cut!

S.O.G and Hunted

Princesses ;

very obvious! they're in their princess outfits, matching in almost everything! the only difference is that Harumi has flower petals pattern on her cloak (that I DIDNT draw), while Fuyumi has snowflakes pattern on her cloak (that I didn't draw either)

Civilians ;

Harumi has her casual fit, the jacket and the pants, while Fuyumi kept on most of her royal robes on to honor her family legacy, Harumi is annoyed because she was planning on Fuyumi dying along the emperor and empress but.. she didn't,

Harumi has makeup on and golden earrings, while Fuyumi has nothing on her face (girl lost her parents c'mon)

The Quiet One and The Prisoner ;

while they were living in the bounty, instead of crashing the ship AND also getting rid of Fuyumi, Harumi planted a chip of the piece they found in Zane in fuyumi's bed and later on Fuyumi was framed was sent to prison, she wears orange for most of the story,

Meanwhile Harumi revealed herself and the story goes almost all to canon, they go to the commissioner and get Fuyumi out and tell her everything, she's traumatized

FUN FACT ACTUALLY did you know that blue and orange are on the complete opposite side of the color wheel... I love foreshadowing

Crystalized ;

Kabuki Mask and The Empress

These are my favorite ones! Harumi has her current disguise as Kabuki Mask, covering her face because of her identity, while Fuyumi changed her hair color back to it's original color, blonde instead of platinum so she's not associated with Harumi anymore, and wears a Hanfu veil mask to cover her face because she's ashamed of her looks

Fuyumi kept the green robes because it reminded her of the empress, after literally losing everything she sorta feels numb now and doesn't even bother wiping her ruined face now :(

In another word the two are covering their faces now, whether it's because they secretly remember each other just from looking at a reflection ORRR because they need to is up to you *shrugs*

#i cant feel my hands from writing #OUCH #anyways um #english isn't my first language #i hope you all understand what I'm saying #but ANYWAYS #im sorta obsessed with this AU soo im REALLY gonna write a fanfiction about them! im so excited! #it might come out this friday but whooo knows!! #twin au #ninjago #my art #ninjago oc #digital art #my drawing #ninjago fanart #harumi's twin sister au #harumi ninjago #harumi #princess harumi #harumi jade #jade princess #ninjago original character #ninjago fuyumi #au #alternative universe #ninjago au #long post #artist on tumblr #angst

[hanfugallery]

chinese hanfu for winter by 栗芝堂

#china #hanfu #fashion #chinese fashion #cape #cloak #doupeng #winter hanfu

[argetcross]

To me, Nyx's design has always had strong influences from Chinese goddess designs (in the same way Thanatos borrows heavily from Ancient Egyptian fashion). She has the floating shawl, the half-up, half-down hairdo, and even the drapery of her gown feels more like a hanfu than a peplos. The straight fall of the gown and the elongated cloak and drapery create a silhouette that really doesn't look like a peplos to me, even though that's arguably what she's wearing. If this was all intentional design choice, I'll be really tickled, because it was the first thing I noticed about her design all those years ago.

#nyx #hades game #its been on my mind for a while #im no fashion expert but #it's like the hair and the clothes and the scarf!!!

[olderthannetfic]

I don't know beans about traditional Chinese clothing and I'm not in any fandom where characters were hanfu, but I'm finding the conversation about it really interesting by analogy to something I am familiar with, Highland dress. I wear a kilt maybe about once a week, and the historical and cultural significance is important to me.

The full outfit one traditionally wears with a kilt has a gazillion pieces, and each pice has at least two names, was probably invented a few hundred years later than you think it was, and almost certainly is at the center of at least one political issue in the 18th or 19th century.

The thing you think of as a kilt is also called a small kilt, or a philabeg (a loan word from Gaelic, also spelled filibeg or phillibeg), and is technically half of the great kilt (aka philamor, also with spelling variations). It may or may not have been invented by an Englishman.

The Jacobite shirt is a recent invention. The wide belt with a huge buckle comes from military dress. Tartan is technically the name of the cloth, and a plaid is a sort of mini cloak you wear on your shoulder. Kilt pins only go through the top layer of fabric and don't pin the kilt together, and are a Victorian invention. Tartan patterns only gained close and official identities with specific clans or families or groups in the Victorian era. Some modern Tartans are under copyright and you need permission from the designer to weave or sell them, others are public domain and literally anyone can wear them, despite affiliation.

I could go on....

Or you can wear a kilt with stompy goth boots and a band tshirt, or with hiking boots and a polo shirt, that's fine too (and how I wear mine, more often than not).

It's not hard for me to see that hanfu is just as complex and has just as much historical and cultural significance as the traditional cultural clothing I'm more familiar with, and getting it wrong in a fic would look just as silly.

But you don't have to actually do this much research and know everything I know about Scottish history to write a character who wears a kilt, whether it's in a historical, present day, or fantasy setting.

You probably want to have an OK grasp of what Highland dress means to your character and why they wear it, and you want to acutally know what a kilt even is in the first place (it's a little more specific than just a skirt), but that's all you really need.

If a Chinese fanfic author wanted to write Outlander fic, and didn't want to do the in depth research to get the clothing terminology exactly right for the time period, that's fine. Just put the pleats in back and call it a kilt instead of a skirt and that's good enough.

-- Same anon who just sent the ask about Highland dress. I can see where the "it's not a robe" anons are coming from. To me, the word "robe" covers a huge variety of unrelated garments, including bathrobes and wizard robes and hanfu and kimono and togas and the sack-like things graduates wear and the things Medieval European kings wear. But if someone called a great kilt a robe, I think I'd have a fit. Yes, just like the other examples, it's a large flowing piece of cloth worn around the body in a certain style, but it's more specific than that. I most likely feel this way because I'm more familiar with great kilts than I am with the other examples. The others are all just different kinds of robes to me, but a great kilt is something specific that I know a lot about. If you described a great kilt to someone who didn't know anything about it as a type of robe, I would consider that accurate, but if you said of an Outlander character "he put on his robe", I would be like "excuse me???? that's a great kilt". That's probably how the "hanfu ≠ robe" anons are thinking.

For me, as a novelist, the calculation is simple:

When I'm writing in third person limited (as I usually do), how would the character be thinking about this clothing? That's what the argument boils down to.

On one side, we have "This word is more Chinese, so it feels more like it's honoring that these are Chinese canons".

On the other side, we have the equivalent of "Your Scottish guy from 1350 is not going around thinking 'He was clad in Scottish dress' about his bros who are just wearing normal clothing."

--

No one is confused about the two sides of the argument. They just disagree about whether 'hanfu' is anachronistic and exoticizing.