Chinese Clothing Style

Traditional Chinese clothing is broadly referred to as hanfu with many variations such as traditional Chinese academic dress. 

Depending on one's status in society, each social class had a different sense of fashion. Most Chinese men wore Chinese black cotton shoes, but wealthy higher class people would wear tough black leather shoes for formal occasions. 

Very rich and wealthy men would wear very bright, beautiful silk shoes sometimes having leather on the inside. 

Women would wear bright, silk coated Lotus shoes, with wealthy women practicing bound feet as a status symbol - a practice abolished in the early 20th century. Male shoes were mostly less elaborate than women's.