Dian people’s clothing is the most popular and commonly used linen fabrics, fur and leather are also important raw materials for Dian people’s clothing. The costumes of the Dian people are decorated with cross-stitching and embroidery.

Dian people wear the same clothes as men and women. The upper body wears a round-neck double-breasted coat, which is unbuttoned. The underwear is slightly shorter and has a round neck. On different occasions, their clothes are slightly different, such as dancing, wearing long clothes that drag the floor, and headdresses with feathers.

Buckles are one of the most representative utensils in Yunnan Bronze Culture. Its shapes are round, rectangular and natural shapes formed according to the subject matter. According to the different production techniques, there are plain type, pattern type, gem-inlaid type, embossed gem-inlaid type, carved gem-inlaid type, etc.

Those who wear buckles are the upper-class figures of the Dian people. The buckles of the Dian people are not only a kind of decoration, but also a kind of utensils, which are tied in the abdomen. The round buckles are used in daily life, and the rectangular and natural-shaped buckles may be used for sacrifices, welcomes, gatherings or other special occasions. occasion use.

The main raw materials of Dian people’s costumes are linen and animal skins.

From the patterns depicted on the unearthed cultural relics, it can be known that the clothing customs of the Dian people vary with their identities and occasions. For example, men and women of the aristocratic and wealthy class mostly wear short-sleeved jackets with round necks and double breasts on the upper body, which are not buttoned. Do not wear pants. Some wear shorts, and some wear a wide band at the crotch and tie it up to the waist.

Those who are depicted in the bronze patterns as carrying the public, planting seeds, grazing, holding umbrellas, etc., should be either family slaves or civilians. This kind of men and women usually wear long gowns with narrow sleeves, a belt in the waist, and a long back placket. Some of them drag the floor, like animal tails. Some clothing customs are the same regardless of age, gender, high or low, such as the custom of wearing bare feet.

A relatively special kind of clothing is that after the death of the king of Dian, he also imitated the system of wearing “golden jade clothes” on the corpses of nobles in the Western Han Dynasty.