Twenty Years in the Lives of Twenty People--The Aesthetic Changes in the Color of Clothing during China's Transitional Period

摘要

The past two decades spanning the 80s of the twentieth century until today have been of great significance to the Chinese people. From the exploratory and experimental inception of China's reform and opening-up policy to its steady, rapid economic development today, the lives of Chinese people have undergone tremendous change in terms of clothing, food, housing and transportation. The most direct and vivid reflection of this social transformation has been in the progression of change in color expression in clothing. This article conducts a summary of this progression based on an image compilation of clothing from twenty Chinese people over the past two decades. In addition, this article analyzes the progression of change in color expression in clothing from a broad perspective of social development as well as the origins and the cultural backgrounds which triggered the changes in their aesthetic orientation.