Tianjin Modern Costume Culture Studies (1840-1949)

Clothing is human social production, living, culture, direct reflection of the economic, political, and concentrated reflection, clothing can reflect the social culture.Clothing in the process of human social development reflects the cultural connotation is consistent affirmative, experts and scholars a local dress to reflect the culture of a place, for a local culture research can be different, and costume culture research is one of the most important aspects of the experts and scholars study, not a lack of research on the dress culture of a place.Tianjin as an extremely important northern city in China’s modern history, not only is the national important commercial center, the treaty port, but the land of the burgeoning modern industry development, the new culture thoughts origin spread.So, tianjin the revolutionary change of modern clothing not only focus on mapping the tianjin modern economic, political, cultural and other aspects of the important changes, but also reflects the push China, especially the important influence of dress change in north China. Sustained, system research of dress culture of tianjin, tianjin modern times clothing culture, contribute to tianjin modern costume culture research.Therefore, study of tianjin area of costume culture knows is opened in tianjin, and understanding of China, modern history and the social nature of a window.Tianjin modern costume culture research, help to research modern Chinese dress culture communication between regions, the fusion and development;Contributes to an understanding of the evolution of modern Chinese dress culture.Tianjin city history is not long, but the geographical position is superior, the unique role in modem China, developed rapidly and become a treaty port, the trade developed, advanced industrial, politically active, cultural prosperity, more for immigration, citizens composition diversity, must make immigration influence each other, mutual penetration of the local culture, formed the intersection, the fusion of costume culture.And tianjin as a microcosm of China’s semi-colonial and semi-feudal society, for its modern clothing research not only helps to understand the change of the modern clothing, tianjin also helps to understand the development of modern Chinese dress culture.This thesis is on the premise of this, based on historical data and collector object to pursue the modern tianjin area in1840-a-1949between the evolution course of costume culture, and and the cause of forming this kind of dress culture phenomenon.