The Evolution of Chinese Women’s Image Before and After the Reform and Opening up

Abstract

Reform and opening-up is a great events in Chinese history. As an important turning point, women's clothing has undergone obvious changes. In the 70 s and 80 s in China, based on the women's clothing as the research object, this paper studies the female clothing style of specific changes, the social reasons behind the change, and the resulting changes in the image of women. With the change of women's clothing as the mainline, the social features of this transforming period have been systematically researched, and the spontaneously changes in women's status have also been explored and discussed in this paper. The conclusion is that after the reform and opening up, the political-dominated clothing style evolved into a personal-dominated clothing style, and the female images have become diversified, international, and personalized.