Colors make Pa Then women’s costumes salient. Bright red is the main color, that’s the reason why some ethnics call them the Red H’mong. Clothes include scarf, shirt belt, dress, and brassieres. In the past, women had long hair rolling around heads by turbans. There are two kinds of turbans: the inside and outside ones.
Pa Then people use only one kind of shirt for four seasons, under any circumstances, on daily life or special occasions. Dresses have no necks, when wearing 2 shirt bodies are crossed over, the back body longer than the front. The main color is red, however they use other bright colors such as white to decorate by joining clothes or weaving thread into patterns
The Pa Then’s dresses are open and red. The part near dress hem are folded into creases. The decoration can be divided into 5 parts: the 2 outside parts are black, have no patterns and when wearing, they are overlapped backward. The 2 next parts are decorated a lot. Patterns are interposed between red and white clothes. The middle area is divided into 2 parts: the black above half with no decoration and the red below half embroidered patterns.
Both Pa Then men and women, but normally women, wear necklaces, bracelets and earrings. They often wear these on special occasions, festivals, social events or wedding days and on daily day, earrings are preferred.
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