How to Make Chinese Traditional Dress⧸Chinese custom⧸DIY Hanfu

Hello everyone and welcome back to Fashion With Sotao's YouTube channel. How are we all doing? And in today's tutorial, we are learning how to make a Chinese traditional dress. It's also called a onfu. Okay, so one of the trending things in schools now is that the agricultural day where children are asked to wear any traditional dress and this was what led to me making this dress as far as I was like Chinese. Okay, so but then I feel there are no more tutorials on it and that is the reason why I decided to put this up here. So if it's something you like, you would like to learn, let's get going. So before we proceed to cutting our fabric, we first draft the pattern on the paper. Okay, so the paper is actually on fold and for the length of the dress, I want it to be 21 and a half because it's going to have a skirt. So I'll just make a line over there which will serve as our aim line right now. We'll come to the edge of the paper, the hopper part and then we are going to use the highest part of the body which is the hip 24 inches. I divide it by four and then mark out nine inches over there. So I'm just going to rule down that nine inches. Now I said I divided 24 by four that gave me seven and then I added two extra inches to it. Okay, so I'm just going to connect the two points together like so. Do you see? Now the next thing we are going to do now is find our sleeve extension. You know the sleeve is caught together with the dress. So now to get that, I'm going to mark out 11 inches from the line I have drawn out. Okay, so now we have that and then coming to the line area, the body line area, I'm going to mark out six inches. So now I'm going to go ahead and use my barrel to make some sketches like a connect. Now from the 11 inches sleeve extension, I went ahead and measured 16 inches downward and that's where I'm traveling to. Well, I'm trying to make a sketch to see how it will come out. I've not done it before. Okay, so I just want to be sure I have before getting back to you as to what I did over the right. So I'm just going to take my marker and then make a bold connect of the line to form the sleeve. Do you see? It's just like S. Just like how we come puff out our sleeve or cap. So I'm just going to take my ruler now then connect the two points which will serve as our arm opening. Okay, I didn't tell us what measurements we have over there but over there we have 16 inches from the edge of the sleeve to the down part. Okay, I'm trying to measure it for you to see. Okay, so that's 16 inches, right? So that's for the sleeve length. For the dress length, we have 21 and a half. Do you see? Okay, I'm going to label that to 21 and a half and then for the sleeve opening, like I said, I use six inches over and then make like an S curve to connect the sleeve and that is that's to the on full dress. I'll go ahead and cut the whole thing out. Guys, after cutting it, this is what we have and I went ahead and cut out two of that but this is the front. I'll work on the front and then show you the back afterwards. So over there for the neck width, I marked two and a half and then for the depth, I marked 11 inches. Okay, so I'm just going to make a connect of the points like so. I mean the neck width to the 11 inches, right? You know it's like a kimono and so I'm going to make a cut out of that but let me make a bold connect of this point first. Okay, to show the next thing. Next, I'm going to take my ruler like so and then from the edge, the M, I'm just going to make a curve connect to the 11 inches points we add initially. I'm going to blend it like so. Like I said, it's like a kimono jacket and this is what the front will look like but the back will be a regular one. So I'll take my scissors now and cut the front out. The opening at the front out. Now guys, our front is set. Like I said, I cut out two of it. Okay, so this is the second one which we save as the back. For the back, we are not putting anything. Okay, so that's the front and that's the front which we cut out and here is our back, right? So I'm just going to open it for you to see how the placement will be. So this is our back. There is no cut on that and then the front is what we have. I will just do the placement before we go ahead and cut our fabric and this is what it will look like after. Do you see the sleeve? It's given already and it's beautiful even on the paper. All I will just go ahead to do is to trim the back. Okay, so that we'll have everything equal at the arm area and that is it. That is that to that. So guys, I've gone ahead to cut it and this is the back. You can see the flowery fabric. Okay, so I've cut, I've gone ahead to cut the back and then the front also. So right now, we'll set this aside and proceed to the skirt part of the dress and sorry guys, I didn't remember to tell you of the fabric I used. For the top, I made use of a crepe material, flowery crepe material and for the skirt part, I'm making use of a duchess material. The same duchess is what I will use for the belt but I'm making use of the off-white of it. Okay, now for the skirt, like I said, this dress is actually for a four-year-old girl and so I'm going to fold to be folding this. I'm making use of one and a half of this right so I'm going to be folding this into four like I did. Do you see because it's going to have a single joining which will be at the back. Okay, so I folded it into four like so and then I'm going to cut out the length that I want. Now, for the skirt length, I'm going to mark out 24 inches. The actual length is 23 inches so I mark out 24 inches. I'll use one inch as the aiming allowance and then I'm going to mark an extra one inch at the top which will serve as the elastic casement. Okay, so that's why I'm marking another one inch over there so I'll go ahead and then cut it out. This is our skirt. Our skirt is having a single joining at the back. Now, we'll proceed back. We'll go back to our top. I'm going ahead to join the top as you can see and that's the um you can see the sleeve area and then the the whole thing joins together. Do you see and the cuff is really giving. So, now I want to cut the white band on the on the jacket. Okay, I'm calling it top. I'm calling it jacket. So, what I'm going to do now is take my place it on one side of the neck and then measure it around like you see me do. Okay, so this is just for us to get the accurate band we are going to cut out. After measuring it all around, I have 65 inches and I've also gone ahead to cut this band. Okay, so I have to cut four pieces of it so that we can have the length and also I've gone ahead to cut the pink material. So, the way I'm going to place it now is fold it into two like that is one inch I fold it into two that is 0.5 and then I'll fold it and then place the other side on it like so and sew on it like that. Okay, so after joining everything this is what the bands look like. So, what I'm going to do now is now fix the band to it. Do you see what I'm talking about? Okay, so that is the joining right you see the the pink the pink strap and then so now I'm going to find the midpoint on the neck like so do you see the way I place my neck at the back I will just find the midpoint and notch it also for the band right the place where it is joined you know two strap was joined together I'll just find the midpoint and then join everything together like so and for the sleeve also I've done the same thing I'll join the sleeve and then come back to show you how it came out guys after joining everything this is the way we have it right do you see it's already giving that Chinese look and I'm loving it already okay so that's the sleeve area you see very beautiful okay so the next thing we are going to cut now is the belt area so just like we have our tummy belt the wide area and then the tiny area okay so this will serve as the wide area all I'm going to do I use a waste to cut it out and for the joint to to connect it I mean to it's not going to be tight right so I'm going to use fake chrome to it but then I also it's also going to have that effect that the hand and the band so now to fix it I'm just going to fold it into half equal length and then join like we did to the sleeve and the band okay and this is the belt on it okay so I'm just going to go ahead and join everything guys if you are still this time watching this is a show for me that you are getting value like this video give us the thumbs up comments if you have questions ask and so this is the outcome of the whole thing right that's the and then the band area and um for the belts it's just like tummy belts I put fake chrome that's the way she'll be wearing it and then afterwards this will be tied on it right and we have also have this kit and this is our Chinese dress everything is given already and I love the outcome I'm sure you love it too give this video a thumbs up like I said share with your friend um practice it also and then you can also ask questions if you have and so guys I've come to the end of this tutorial thank you so much for staying see you in my next tutorial bye