Women's dresses of Shui nationality are mostly sewn with water armor cloth, without collars, big skirts, semi-gowns and long gowns. Robes are knee-length and generally have no embroidered edges. Holiday and wedding costumes are completely different from usual. Shoulders and cuffs on wedding dresses, embroidered ribbons on trousers and knees, and colorful patterns on headscarves. Wear a silver crown on the head, a silver collar on the neck, a silver bracelet on the wrist, a silver elegant collar on the chest, silver earrings on the earlobe and embroidered shoes on the feet. Brides usually dress beautifully and behave gracefully. In addition, women's embroidered suspenders are more artistic. It is said to be a "belt", but it is actually a gorgeous embroidered "T"-shaped "curtain" with belts on both sides of the upper end. The curtain is big enough to wrap the child. It is made by winding a white ponytail with white silk thread, adding silk threads of other colors, respectively embroidering various patterns, and finally splicing the embroidered patterns onto the strap fabric. Straps are beautiful and practical, and they are the best gifts for mothers to give to their married daughters. A married woman carries her baby on her back with a belt. The halter top is exquisitely embroidered, which is also a part of her personal decoration.
On the one hand, the special aesthetic view of the Shui nationality in clothing color is related to its humble and introverted ethical norms; On the other hand, the colors they appreciate are in harmony with the green natural environment in which they live. Because blue and cyan are cool colors, they are often consistent with the freshness and softness of the clear spring in the shade, which produces a feeling of stability and peace psychologically.
The costumes of Shui men and women are mainly blue and blue. Men wear a blue shirt with big breasts and no collar, a melon skin cap, or a blue cloth head. Old people wear robes, their heads are wrapped in cloth and their feet are wrapped in leggings. Women wear blue, black and blue round neck, wide sleeves and blue trousers with lace at the hem, blue and green flowers at the waist and embroidered blue cloth shoes; Wear a skirt on holidays and comb your long hair into an oblique forehead; Wear all kinds of earrings, collars, bracelets and other silver ornaments at major festivals or banquets.