Trang phuc Viet, Viet phuc or Quan ao Viet all literally meaning Vietnamese clothing, is the traditional style of clothing worn in Vietnam by the Vietnamese people, including the unofficial national dress of Vietnam, the ao dai.
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The upper classes of Vietnam in Northern Vietnam tended to wear Vietnamese clothing which mirrored the fashions of the Chinese, and this style of Vietnamese clothing persisted even after the end of the Chinese rule in the independent kingdom of Ðai Viet and in Champa.
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The Vietnamese clothing was multi-layered; it was common to wear three layers of Vietnamese clothing and tended to have narrow and straight sleeves.
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The Elites wore Vietnamese clothing made of silk which were colourful and decorated while commoners wore plain hemp-based Vietnamese clothing.
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Vietnamese clothing wore a round neck costume, which was made from 4 parts of cloth called ao tu dien.
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Vietnamese clothing men had shaven head or short hair during Tran dynasty.
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Tran dynasty Vietnamese clothing as depicted in "The Mahasattva Truc Lam Coming Out of the Mountains".
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The Vietnamese were ordered to stop cutting their hair and instead to grow their hair long and switch to Han Chinese clothing within a month by a Ming official.
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The Ming dynasty only wanted the Vietnamese clothing to wear long hair and to stop teeth blackening so they could have white teeth and long hair like Chinese.
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In 1435, Nguyen Trai, a scholar official, and his colleagues compiled the Geography based on the lessons he had taught to the prince, who then became Emperor Le Thai Tong; his teachings included how Vietnamese were different from their neighbours in terms of language and clothing customs: "The people of our land should not adopt the languages or the clothing of the lands of the Wu [Ming], Champa, the Lao, Siam, or Zhenla [Cambodia], since doing so will bring chaos to the customs of our land".
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Vietnamese clothing was wearing a cross-collared robe and had loose long hair.
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The most popular type of Vietnamese clothing today is the ao dai for men and women, and suits or sometimes ao gam for men.
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