The Lisu people wear the clothes woven by themselves with no big difference in designs and ornaments among them. The only big difference is the color and on that basis the Lisu people are divided into White Lisu people, Black Lisu people and Variegated Lisu people. The Variegated Lisu's clothes are bright and colorful while the Black Lisu people' clothes look elegant and graceful.

Costumes of women

Inhabiting in the area of Nujiang River, the white and black Lisu women wear right-front-open jacket and linen longuette. The married women wear long-to-shoulder big copper earrings, and studded their hair with coral and pearls, while the young girls usually do up their braids with white-small-shell-studded red thread. Some women like to wear a string of agate, shell or silver coins; some of the shells are carved with horizontal and perpendicular lines or small holes.

Some of the valuable brooches are worthy the price of one or two cattle. The clothes for the variegated Lisu people living in the area of Yongsheng and Tengchong are gorgeous. Women there like to wear laces-trimmed jackets and longette, wrap their hair with colorful headcloth, hang big copper or silver earrings, looking very pretty and charming. The longette for the Lisu women are called Hundred Flower Longette because they are finely tailored with hundred pieces of colorful cloth.

They wear cross-like black turban trimmed with colorful tassels, tie a self-woven color wool wide band around their waist and hang two pieces of long cloth symmetrically on both sides. They wear jade bracelets, silver earrings and hang string pearls and carry white linen bag, looking colorful and graceful.

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