calendar>>August 24. 2009 Juche 98
New Designs of Women's Clothes
Pyongyang, August 24 (KCNA) -- The garment institute of the DPRK is striving to design and disseminate women's clothes of Korean style suitable to their aesthetic sense.

It has made a multimedia showing designs of seasonal women's clothes for tailor's shops across the country.

Put into the multimedia are more than 200 designs of women's clothes including traditional holiday and wedding dresses and daily clothes.

Shortcomings of the past seasonal clothes were rectified and new styles introduced in the new clothes.

The seasonal clothes were also designed to suit body shape, age and hobby of women.

The wedding dresses, gracefully white and light pink , are embroidered with gentle patterns. And the holiday dresses were decorated with patterns of deep and soft colors which are deep in national taste.

The colors of the jogori (coat) and chima (skirt) for middle-aged women are different and the harmony of colors further refined. The dresses for the aged are made elegantly with knitted cloth.

The clothes will be presented to the 7th National Korean Costume Exhibition.

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