A study on the reappearance of upper-class girls’ costume contents in early 18th century

This study is designed to compensate for the lack of children’s clothing relics from the early 18th century and to reproduce young upper-class girls’ costume as hanbok content. The shapes and materials of costumes are based on the record of  Sukjong-silrok  in 1701 and the characteristics of adult ladie’s costume relics in this period, but reproduced as miniatures of these relics as like Joseon children’s clothing of another period. The reproduced costumes are formal wear for 3~4 year-old girls, consisting of yeoui [ 女衣 ], long unlined skirts, and lined skirts. Sizes were set at a height ratio of approximately 155:95. Yeoui is sam-hoejang-jeogori using pine pollen-colored damask with a grape-squirrel pattern and a purple damask with flower-treasure pattern. The full length of yeoui is 24.5cm. It has a square-dangko outer collar with square inner collar. The long unlined skirt is a six-width overskirt that is 82cm long, made with lotus patterned sa . The lined skirt is a five-width skirt that is 61.3cm made with flower-treasure patterned red damask and ju . Several long pleats on both sides of these two skirts have been omitted. The result provides meaningful content for children’s clothing in the early 18 th century and will be used as costume for an educational trial performance.