AHC: Make Hanfu the Preeminent Clothing Style in Modern China.

Hanfu was traditional Chinese clothing from Confucian times until the establishment of the Qing Dynasty, which was not ruled by Han, but rather by Manchus. The Manchu imposed upon China strict dress rules, and introduced what is now known as Chinese traditional clothing. This, covered under garments like the tangzhuang, the qipao, and the changshan, also included the queue hairstyle and several other changes. Not following these new rules was considered treason and punishable by death.

Your challenge is to keep Hanfu clothing preeminent in China, at least to the point where modern Chinese formalwear consists of hanfu. If you can keep it as everyday dress, even better. And, to avoid the simplest answer, you must keep the Qing Dynasty in power.
 
Forget Qing; how do you prevent ready-to-wear modern Western clothing to be prominent?. Even in Japan where there's no restrictions on clothing, most people wear shirts and pants/skirts nowadays (though it wouldn't be considered strange for them to see someone wearing a kimono in the streets once in a while).

My best stab a this: Make bathrobes extremely fashionable!
 
Forget Qing; how do you prevent ready-to-wear modern Western clothing to be prominent?. Even in Japan where there's no restrictions on clothing, most people wear shirts and pants/skirts nowadays (though it wouldn't be considered strange for them to see someone wearing a kimono in the streets once in a while).

My best stab a this: Make bathrobes extremely fashionable!

Indeed - there was no Meiji restrictions on clothings, I think.

AND more; communism tend to see Hanfu probably as 'feudalism and reactionary'... I am not sure what Mao thought of it, but he pushed for his famous Mao Suits.
 
Forget Qing; how do you prevent ready-to-wear modern Western clothing to be prominent?. Even in Japan where there's no restrictions on clothing, most people wear shirts and pants/skirts nowadays (though it wouldn't be considered strange for them to see someone wearing a kimono in the streets once in a while).

My best stab a this: Make bathrobes extremely fashionable!

I considered that, which is why I also presented the option of having hanfu exist mainly as formalwear, which seems eminently possible. After all, Indian women still use saris as formalwear, and a good percentage of Indian men use dhotis and salwar's as formal clothes as well. Not to mention that a vast percentage of Indians wear traditional clothes on a daily working basis. China was never colonized, while India was. I don't know what made it possible, but it seems to be.
 
I considered that, which is why I also presented the option of having hanfu exist mainly as formalwear, which seems eminently possible. After all, Indian women still use saris as formalwear, and a good percentage of Indian men use dhotis and salwar's as formal clothes as well. Not to mention that a vast percentage of Indians wear traditional clothes on a daily working basis. China was never colonized, while India was. I don't know what made it possible, but it seems to be.

Even India - didn't neiru and his socialistic bent made him try to make his Neihru tunic(?) popular?

This forget the effects of communism and socialism...
 
I've recently stumbled on a page on wiki that describe forms of chinese clothes ( post Manchu, pre Mao ) don't remember the name, that are making some sort of comeback, and that it is linked in some form of expressing ones patriotism in a visible way.
 
I've recently stumbled on a page on wiki that describe forms of chinese clothes ( post Manchu, pre Mao ) don't remember the name, that are making some sort of comeback, and that it is linked in some form of expressing ones patriotism in a visible way.

Yeah, there is the rise of a chinese (han) nationalism..
 
I've recently stumbled on a page on wiki that describe forms of chinese clothes ( post Manchu, pre Mao ) don't remember the name, that are making some sort of comeback, and that it is linked in some form of expressing ones patriotism in a visible way.

And I also remember news of those guys getting beaten up by the general populace since they were mistaken for being Japanese.:(
 
And I also remember news of those guys getting beaten up by the general populace since they were mistaken for being Japanese.:(

This is the main problem. Non-hanfu styles were been the law from the 1600s to 1912, so they're pretty deeply ingrained in Chinese culture.
 
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