Hmong+traditional+cloth

===Hmong traditional cloth have different style cloth depend on the culture. There were Hmong Blue (also called Hmong Green) and Hmong White. These names come from the colors used in their traditional clothing. This two group also have some differences in customs and language. **Hmong Green:** ===

===This vividly colored knee-length skirt was made by a Hmong Green woman that live in a refugee camp in Thailand. A Hmong Green's skirt includes three sections according to the characteristic of the Hmong Green. The top section is a band of white cotton material. The middle panel is covered with a batik pattern, created by a fabric-dyeing technique that uses wax to make a design. A design of cross-stitch embroider and applique are on the last section of the skirt, which is the bottom section. The design on these skirt are created simply by eye and memory, with a steady hand guided by the grain of the fabric's woven threads. They are created without patterns, stencils, or rulers. The whole skirt contains as much as nine yards of fabric.===

//Here is a picture of the Hmong Green traditional dress.//


=**In the United States:**= ===Hmong have adopted Western-style clothing for everyday wear and only dresses in Hmong traditional clothes when it's ceremonial events. Today many skirts incorporate synthetic materials and dyes, resulting in the fluorescent colors that we see here rather than the all-natural fabrics and primary colors of earlier traditional dress.===

//Hmong traditional dresses that are not earlier traditional dress.//


=Hmong White =

The costume in the picture below are the Hmong White and Hmong Green traditional clothe. The one on the right is the Hmong White traditional clothe, and the one on the left is the Hmong Green traditional clothe. Hmong White woman's dress is all white, and the Hmong Green woman's dress is very colorful. The Hmong White man's clothe are consists of a black tunic (similar to a vest) and black wide legged trousers. The Hmong Green man's clothe have the same black wide legged trousers, but on top of that it have a different shirt.

=Headdresses =

Headdresses Traditionally, headdresses were made from a 3-yard long piece of cloth that was wrapped around the head in a similar fashion to a turban. However, now headdresses are made so that they retain their design and do not come apart.In the Hmong homeland headdresses were worn almost daily, but now they are worn mostly for the New Year's celebration, funerals, or other culturally significant events.

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