The Bai nationality's clothing has a long historical development process, and has formed its own national characteristics. From the Qin and Han Dynasties to the Northern and Southern Dynasties, the Bai ancestors, the Dianbai people centered on Dianchi Lake, "wore feathers on their heads". In the bronze dance images unearthed from Shizhaishan, Jinning, the dancers all wore feather crowns with long feathers on their heads, their upper bodies were naked, and they wore animal skin feather belt skirts. In the Erhai area, the Xi'er Man, one of the ancestors of the Bai nationality in the early Tang Dynasty, men and women wore felt skin as capes, women wore silk cloth as skirts, and men and women were barefoot. Volume 5 of "Yunnan Chronicles" says: "There are Baiman in the east, men and women wear white silk as clothes, which do not go below the knees." "Women, no makeup, and have soft and shiny hair. The noble ones wear silk and brocade as skirts." "If the sons and the four military officers are below the rank of Luoju, they should wear a bun on their foreheads and not wear horns; they should wear a bun on their heads and wear felt skin. Common people are barefoot, but the headband is special. Nanzhao wears red silk, and the rest of the people wear black silk." "Caochang and below can wear a golden Qiju (i.e. belt)." "Those with extraordinary merits can wear a full-body boluopi (i.e. tiger skin)." The royal family of Nanzhao, the Qingping officials, and the generals have imitated the Han clothing, with round-necked, wide-sleeved robes on the top, wide pants and tight legs on the bottom, and boots. The headband of the Zhao king is in the shape of a bell and tripod, the headband of the civil officials is in the shape of a black lotus, and the headband of the military officials is in the shape of a tiger head. The Bai clothing of the Dali Kingdom, the royal family and 1 all wear silk and satin. In the Yuan Dynasty, the clothing color was "slightly based on the Han Dynasty". "Men wore felt and had a bun on their heads, while women did not apply powder and had soft and shiny hair. They tied a green yarn around their heads and wrapped it with a black scarf. They wore gold earrings and ivory wrapped around their arms. Their clothes were embroidered with square pieces, and half-fine felt was their upper garment." Since the Ming and Qing Dynasties, the Bai nationality's clothing, generally speaking, was the same for men in different places, while women's clothing was different in different places. The clothing of Bai men in central areas such as Dali was a white or blue headscarf wrapped around their heads, a white double-breasted shirt and a black-collared jacket, white or blue trousers, and a shoulder bag embroidered with beautiful patterns. Bai men (Lemo people) in the fourth district of Bijie wore a linen waistcoat that was longer than the knees over their double-breasted shirts, wide trousers, a long sword for self-defense and a flowered bag on their shoulders, and several strings of colorful beads around their necks. Men in Haidong, Dali, wear melon-shaped hats, white cloth socks and red shoes with cloud-shaped heads. They wear short coats with large collars, suede collar jackets, and several cloth or silk collar jackets on the outside. They wear green silk belts around their waists and suede or embroidered bellybands. As for the Bai women's clothing, in Dali, they mostly wear white coats, red, blue or black velvet collar jackets, blue wide pants, short waistcoats with embroidered ribbons, and embroidered "hundred-section shoes". They wear silver bracelets on their arms, enamel silver rings on their fingers, silver earrings, and silver "three-beards" and "five-beards" on the right lapel of their coats. Married people wear buns, and unmarried people wear braids hanging down or coiled on their heads. They all wrap their heads with embroidery, printed cloth or colorful towels. The belt outside the clothes is made of multiple layers of thick cloth sewn into a hard belt. Girls wear it from the age of five to make their waists as slender as bees. The double-layer short waistcoat with embroidered ribbons on the outside is always graceful whether standing or walking. Wearing boat-shaped embroidered shoes on the feet means that the river and the sea will not hinder a smooth life. Unmarried women in Dengchuan area wear small hats or "drum nail hats" covered with silver bells, or "fishtail hats" with high brims. The collars of Bai women living in Jiuhe, Lijiang are mostly made of felt, with lace on the sleeves and feet, and soft sheepskin with a seven-star pattern on the back. The double-breasted clothes worn by women in Ashizhai, Baoshan, have a front lapel that reaches the waist and a back lapel that goes over the knees. They have colorful sleeves on their arms and a waistcoat that reaches the ground in front. The clothing of Bai women in Bijiang is to wear a wreath hat with seashells and white grass on their heads, and dozens of strings of colorful beads on their heads. They wear black or colorful short clothes, embroidered waistcoats with three seashells and beads on the front and back of their waists, and go barefoot. The hair ornaments of newlywed women in Haidong, Dali, are "Phoenix Nodding" (with a phoenix head, phoenix back, phoenix wings and phoenix tail), and they wear red and green clothes with large inlays and large rolls; young women also wear "drum nail hats". Bai girls in Dianbei, Heqingba District, wear two 1-foot-2-inch square scarves on their heads, either blue, purple or black, and wrap a 3-foot-6-foot red hair rope around the outer edge of their heads, symbolizing the 360 days of a year. Women in Shahe, Diannan Basha, Henan wear "a large black round hat in the shape of a purse with thousands of folds and wrinkles", symbolizing the sun and the moon on their heads. Women in Songgui and Beiya wrap their heads with 2-foot-4-foot black cloth to make them pointed, symbolizing the 24 festivals in a year. After the 1980s, suits and leather shoes, permed hair and makeup also became popular among young Bai men and women in towns in the dam area.