Eileen Chang Clothing Concept

Zhang Ailing lived in the time of May Fourth Movement. Her aesthetic perspective is unique, and her taste for dressing is remarkable at her time. This article aims to analyze the image of Zhang's own dressing and the characters'dressing in her novels. As a woman writer, she had elaborate design of the character's clothes in her work. As large as to the changes of the times, the difference of social status, as well as to the mood of the characters, everything was reflected in the characters 'dressing. The sharp contrast of color using, complicated and delicate aesthetic interest, made her "robe of life" with both refined and popular taste. This was closely connected with the social background, her childhood environment, family education, influences from her mother and her own love experiences. She stressed feminist dominant aesthetic consciousness, which is basically different from the thinking that a girl will doll herself up for him who loves her at that time. Meanwhile, Zhang' s unique temperament and she creative dressing style broke the barriers of traditional middle class society. Therefore, her dressing concept contribute to the latter people and promoted the pluralistic development of dressing.