Jingpo Clothes

Young women of the Jingpo ethnic minority usually wear short jackets with buttons down the front middle or front left. Their jackets are always sewn with numerous silver bubbles and pieces. They wear silver necklaces around the neck, wrap leggings interwoven with red and black wools around the legs and carry a bag woven with red and black wools, decorated with silver bubbles and pieces over the waist. Some women wrap the head with a kerchief interwoven with red and black wools. Those people who are not wealthy decorate their clothes with aluminous bubbles and pieces instead of silver ones. Old-aged women mostly wear wide black or blue short jackets, coil the hair on the top of the head and wrap it with a black kerchief.

Jingpo men wear modern clothes and wrap their head with white kerchiefs. However, middle-aged and old men still wear black short jackets buttoned down the front and wide trousers, and coil their plaits on top of the head and wrap the head with black cloth. When Jingpo men go out, they always take a bag, a long knife and a firelock with them.