Thai Traditional Clothes (1)

Wearing Draping Folding Pleating
(The pictures and the information below I got from the contemporary exhibition "Wearing Draping Folding Pleating" at KKU. Learning Center)

It was very delight and very glad when I heard that Miss Thailand won the prize about national clothing design in the Miss Universe Competition at Vietnam. (sorry I really don't know the name of that prize indeed.)


Anyway, I just had a double delight when I knew that the designer of the clothes was a student from the same faculty that I used to study in. Yes! I'm telling you that the designer of Miss Thailand's national clothes is a student of the faculty of fine and applied arts, Khon Kaen University!!! WOW! He is just so great! After the competition (I don't remember how long?) there is an exhibition about Thai traditional clothes at the KKU library so I just wanted to post some pictures and the information about Thai traditional clothes in my blog. I hope you will find that how beautiful Thai clothing is. Let's see!


Dressing clothes really show that how creative thinking of human is and when the main purpose of dressing is to cover the body. Dressing in Thai traditional way is done without cutting or sewing anywhere at all. It reflects the clever clothing design and the skill of dressing of Thai people in the past.

For example the selection of using the material, only one cloth can be wearing draping folding or pleating whatever that suitable for their living and the custom. The cloth that used to cover the bottom of Thai people in The past both men and women were rectangle.

( I really like the three look of these women's top clothing.)
(The designer of Miss Thailand's national dress was inspired by the right cloth in the picture above.)
Well, yet the information also said that normal people used to wear that plain clothes (mostly in one color) and the high society people used to wear the good quality clothes belong to their ranks, meanwhile the king and the queen used to wear the fine clothes decorated with the beautiful design and made up specially.
(Here is the gate way to enter)
Here is the last pictures of this article. It's the front of KKU. Learning Center at Khon Kaen University. OK! Keep watching the next article. I think I would like to show you more about how to dress up as the Thai traditional way. Today, I hope you enjoy my blog. Goodbye for now.