Vietnamese clothing is the traditional style of clothing worn in Vietnam by the Vietnamese people. The traditional style has both indigenous and foreign elements due to the diverse cultural exchanges during the history of Vietnam. This all eventually led to the birth of a distinctive Vietnamese style of clothing, including the birth of the unofficial national dress of Vietnam, the áo dài.
A woman from Northern Vietnam wearing an áo tứ thân, a common dress in the north.
A woman from Southern Vietnam wearing an áo bà ba, a common dress in the Mekong delta.
The postcard depicts two women wearing an áo ngũ thân while holding a ba tầm hat.
Nguyễn dynasty officials wearing formal clothing during Lễ tế Nam Giao.
Áo dài is a modernized Vietnamese national garment consisting of a long split tunic worn over silk trousers. It can serve as formalwear for both men and women. Áo translates as shirt and dài means "long". The term can also be used to describe any clothing attire that consists of a long tunic, such as nhật bình.
Vietnamese students wearing Áo dài, 2013
A woman wearing white Áo dài, May 2021
Portrait of Tôn Thất Hiệp (1653–1675). He is dressed in a cross-collared robe (áo giao lĩnh) which was commonly worn by all social castes of Vietnam before the 19th century
Two women wear áo ngũ thân, the predecessor of the áo dài worn in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries depicted on the postcard.
