It does not mean that wearing less clothes when the weather is hot, or wearing short clothes will make you more comfortable. It also does not mean that the more popular fabrics you wear, the more tasteful you are.
At this point, the "old Beijing people" of the old days have already summed up a set of rules that are not chaotic at all, and the colors of fabrics have their own rules.
Generally speaking, from the beginning of summer to the third day of the third lunar month, the single clothes are spun from silk to various kinds of luo, gauze, and linen cloth, and the colors are mostly white, moon white, lake color, and sapphire blue.
(Note: Linen cloth, plain weave cloth and ribbed cloth made of pure hand-woven ramie. Also known as ramie cloth, raw cloth, linen cloth, flat yarn. Because it is often used in summer clothes and is cool and pleasant, it is also commonly known as linen cloth or summer cloth.)
This set of clothing standards even has additional meaning, and can also show a certain age, accomplishment, taste, and class.
Of course, after the "movement", color concepts like "sapphire blue" and "lake color" are already very unfamiliar to people. Few people can tell the difference between "tooth white" and "moon white".
Many old fabrics are even replaced by industrial products because they are particularly troublesome to make by hand and are "low-yield, high-price, old and aging" products. They have declined in the market and few people recognize them.
But from Hong Yanwu's point of view, now he neither wants to show off his scars and muscles in the market and attract attention. nor does he want to wear those shabby chemical fiber things anymore, which will please others and embarrass himself. So he can do it.
I have a deeper appreciation for the benefits of these "outdated by the times" fabrics.
For example, Liuyang round silk fine linen cloth once dominated the world for its "exquisite weavers and particularly delicate texture" and was listed as a tribute to the imperial court in the Ming Dynasty.
As soon as Hong Yanwu learned about this kind of clothing material from Wang Yunlin, he went to several shops to ask about it, and finally found it in the "Rongchang Cloth Store" in "Dashilan".
(Note: Rongchang Cloth Shop is the time-honored "Ruifuxiang" in Beijing. This silk and satin shop was renamed "Hong Weibing Cloth Shop", "Hongqi Cloth Shop", "Yingxin Cloth Shop", and "Rongchang Cloth Shop" during the "Movement"
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The price is really not cheap. It costs 80 cents per foot, which is more expensive than pure cotton cloth at 54 cents per foot. But once you wear it, you can't take it off.
Because you get what you pay for, the breathability is really good, the fabric is fine, non-sticky, and it can be ironed and flattened. It is really comfortable and cool to wear.
Hong Yanwu searched for it again, wanting to buy more. When he asked again, three silk silks, six silk silks, plus the once famous "chicken bone white", the whole store only had less than four pieces of Liuyang grass cloth.
The old master who received him also said that although it was a piece of old cloth that had been thrown away in the store for more than ten years, the quality was not faulty. The purchase price of this thing was also expensive, and even if he wanted more, the price could only be discounted by 10%. But because it was not
For cotton fabrics, cloth stamps can be waived.
Why are Hong Yanwu so polite? But maybe that's all he has in the capital. Needless to say, he won all the money at 70 cents and 1 foot. He kept all of them for more than 300 yuan.
Not to mention that it was beyond the master's expectation, it caused a sensation on the spot, making all the clerks and customers nearby stunned.
The young people had been discussing in private for several days. They all thought that Hong Yanwu was a huge fool. It was so expensive and not fashionable. Isn't it wrong to buy so many horses at once?
But who knows, some of the old masters in those shops regretted it afterwards, and felt that they should have bought some earlier and kept them for themselves. They had all been sold, and they might not be able to buy them anymore in the future.
These are not the only people who really understand, Lao Su is the same.
When the veteran tailor saw the cloth Hong Yanwu brought, he folded it a few times and praised it sincerely.
Lao Su said that both the warp and weft threads are used well to make it so smooth and soft. Good linen cloth with such a fine thickness has not been seen for more than ten years. Moreover, the technology of weaving ramie yarn into a cloth-like shape has basically been lost.
This cloth is definitely worth buying! Eight cents? You should buy one piece!
Hong Yanwu was so beautiful.
Immediately afterwards, the Su family and his son worked together for two weeks, and the entire four families in the east courtyard of Guanyin Yuan all had new summer clothes.
Let me make it clear here that this is not Hong Yanwu being stupid and generous for no reason.
The Su family's father and son make clothes for free, and they always help. They are courteous to each other, so it's appropriate to repay them with fabrics, right?
The Bian family doesn't have to give it away for free, Bian Jiangong can now make money. After listening to Hong Yanwu's recommendation and hearing that the material is cool, I ordered one for the whole family.
Only Lao Ding is so stingy that he is really reluctant to pay for it.
In the end, Hong Yanwu felt that since he had plenty of materials, it would not be good for the whole hospital to have summer clothes, so it was not good for the Ding family to do it alone. So he took the initiative to ask Su Jin to make another coat for each of the Ding family, as a way of respecting the elderly.
At this time, all the talents in the hospital felt the "beauty of linen".
Older people use natural color or gray-blue, young people use white, and women also embroider some patterns.
As soon as they put on these new clothes, except for the old couple of the Hong family and Tailor Su, who had seen and used them, everyone else sighed, "The previous summer was wasted." Everyone loved it.
But speaking of it, among all the people, "Tang Xin'er" is the happiest.
Because not only did she have clothes made of Liuyang linen cloth, don't forget, Wang Yunlin also gave her a piece of material and Su Jin made it into a ready-made dress.
The clothes were made of old materials, better than Liuyang linen, and were called "Xiangyun Sha", also called "Coat Sha", "Buttercup Silk", and "Yao Ya Sha".
This is an ancient and traditional natural silk fabric in Guangdong, my country. It is a natural fabric with original colors that is soaked directly with the juice extracted from kudzu (ranunculus) stems and coated with mud. After being left for a period of time, it is dried by the sun and other special Made by craftsmanship.
It is also purely handmade and very rare.
Its advantage is that it is cool in summer and gentle in winter. The longer it is worn and washed, the better the feel and color will be. Its characteristic is that when walking, the clothes will make a "rustling" sound when rubbing against them.
The only drawback is that in the stages and movies of the Republic of China, this cool fabric became the professional clothing of the "KMT" agents.
This is a headache. That’s why Wang Yunlin’s piece of material has been kept in the cabinet for many years.
Originally, the old lady wanted "Tang Xin'er" to wear it casually at home, but she didn't expect that "Tang Xin'er" simply made a dress out of it.
Now you can wear it openly and openly, which makes you look even more beautiful.
Even Wang Yunlin couldn't praise her enough when she saw this outfit. She couldn't help but say that "Tang Xin'er" is smart.
After talking about home appliances, kitchen and bathroom facilities, clothing, and cooling supplies. These things are also indispensable.
Take fans, for example. There was a saying in the past, "If the fan is windy, hold it in your hand and wait until the beginning of winter if someone comes to borrow it."
It’s not really about how stingy this person is, but it’s about the importance of the fan.
This is absolutely true. In the summer, everyone can hardly leave their hands for a moment.
Even if Hong Yanwu was rich and used a fan in advance, he still couldn't live without it. Because he couldn't carry a fan with him, right? Besides, where could he find a power source?
But one thing we must know is that although everyone shakes a fan, the fans used are also different due to differences in gender, age, occupation and cultural recuperation.