Stereotype 12: Stereotypes of the great-grandfather era

Stereotypes of the great-grandfather era

During the period of the founding of the country, men's and women's clothing was unified, and women's clothing tended to be masculine, especially during the "Cultural Revolution" period, when military uniforms became popular, yellow uniforms, yellow caps, red armbands and yellow satchels became "fashion", and not loving red uniforms and loving arms was held as a standard by women and considered an ideal. Pursuit, many avid youths most aspire to have a set of green military uniforms. Humanity was silent, women's clothing depression; lonely monochrome, uniform style, fashion no longer reflects the personality, but only popular, almost like a religious type of restlessness and fervor. In those days they did not have the right to choose clothing styles, and there was no style to choose from.

In the era of blue, gray and green colorless clothes, military uniforms were prevalent, as shown in Figure 12-1, and China really entered the era of blue, gray and green colorless clothes. It has been said that the Cultural Revolution was a dictatorship of the political trend in the field of clothing. Bragi was considered a revision, suits were considered bourgeois, cheongsam was considered a feudal remnant, and slightly fancy clothes were branded as "fancy dress" and were criticized. Clothing gradually style consistent, single color, regardless of gender, regardless of occupation of military uniforms prevailed.

In the early 1960s, with the start of China's rubber industry, the Chinese People's Liberation Army changed from wearing cloth shoes to wearing liberation shoes. As shown in Figure 12-2, the PLA shoes became the mainstay of our army and have been worn for more than 40 years. for 40 years, they have played an important role in the troops' combat, training, production work and daily life. As the PLA shoes are made of pure cotton material for the upper and lining, they are not sturdy and soldiers often wear five or six pairs of PLA shoes a year. In addition, the liberation shoes are breathable and poorly permeable to moisture, easily breeding bacteria, often emitting an unpleasant smell. Some soldiers even had foot infections, which affected training. Anyone who has had some life experience, arrived at the age of confusion, all in the depths of the heart, in the emotional port, there has been a military cap complex, there has been a hero worship, fascination with the soldier's verdant dream.

The seersucker shirt in the mid-60s, walking down the street and look, young people and children almost all wear seersucker shirt. The blue and white horizontal stripes could be seen everywhere. It is said that the Seasprit shirt is a white and blue striped shirt worn by sailors from various countries, which means the vast sea and blue sky, and the sailors look energetic when they wear the Seasprit shirt. There was a movie "Sea Spirit", starring Zhao Dan, dressed in the sea spirit shirt. A striking sea-soul shirt from near and far, gradually disappearing in the sunny cross streets, once teased the romantic feelings of many beautiful girls.

China entered a special historical period in the late 60s. Clothing is the expression of ideology. The costumes of this period were often called by foreigners: the most Chinese characteristics! "During the Cultural Revolution, military uniforms were the most fashionable and revolutionary clothing, especially among young students. Everyone wanted to get a set, not a full set, half body is fine; no new, old is also good. Boys wear, female students also cut the long braids into short hair, combed into two "small brush", wearing a military cap, wearing military uniforms, waist tie belt, foot stirrups liberation shoes, all exuding a "revolutionary" temperament, representing the fashion of clothing beauty at the time. Seeing that the wedding dresses were green military uniforms, you can see the degree of obsession at that time.

Embroidered with "for the people" military satchel sixties yellow satchel hand a, such as Figure 12-3, has become an indispensable nostalgic props in the film now, and even a fashion label. The yellow satchels of that era are invariably loaded with the same youth, passion and dreams, they are so similar that the bold words coming out of each mouth are so similar. However, the young but energetic figures of the youth who are active in the vast world with yellow satchels on their backs. Even in the era of single color, people's love of beauty still came out, and a photographer called this outflow "the unstoppable spring light", and this natural pursuit of beauty is a deep mark left in people's minds in an era.

From a formal point of view, what was removed was gender difference, but in essence what was killed was humanity and beauty. Chinese women's clothing actually entered a state of nothingness after the mid to late 1960s, leaving a void. "Beauty", became pale.

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Reference.

Xu Yanling and Gong Peihe, The historical flow of Mao Zedong's nation-building strategy [J], Scientific Socialism, 2013 (04)