Manchu women didn't wear skirts but robes with trousers inside, which were their most common daily clothes. The ceremonial robes that Manchu lady wore were decorated with "horse hoof sleeves," complicated ornaments and accessories. There were two types of daily robes; the long shirt that one would wear separately and the cloak. The long shirt was round-neck, "button to the right side" style and long enough to reach feet with twisted garment pieces, straight clothes body and sleeves, edgings, five buttons and no vents, In terms of the sleeve, there were the ones with sleeves or without sleeves. And the materials used were mainly floss for embroidery, woven pattern fabrics and fabrics with golden thread. The shirt was usually decorated by edgings. The cloak was worn outside the under linens with vents on both sides that reach the outer and the top of the vent was decorated with cloud pattern. Mostly for formal occasions, cloaks were decorated with complicate and delicate edgings and patterns. As robes usually had no collars, noble ladies liked to wear a little scarf even when they were at home. In early times, robes were wry loose-bodied, and then became tighter and tighter. Till the end of the Qing Dynasty, tile underarm part of the robe was not very tight and the garment outline was basically fiat and straight. Collars, sleeves and the garment pieces were decorated with wide lacework. The length of robe didn't change.
Manchu women combed their hair into a flat chignon at the back with two horns supported by a hair board, which was also called "double horns hair sfyle. Very beautiful and unique, they often decorated hair with big flowers of vivid color or tassels. 
Their shoes are very characteristic. It is a style of shoes with a high heel in the middle of the sole. The wood heel is generally 3cm to 6cm, but some are even as high as 15 cm. The shape of 
wooden heel is like a flowerpot so it is called "flower pot sole." If the shape of the heel is like a horse hoof, then it is called "horse hoof sole."
The Han women in the early years of Qing Dynasty still maintained their two-piece dressing features by wearing upper coats and lower skirts separately. Upper clothes, from inside to outside included belly-covers, undercoats, coats, waistcoats and cloaks etc. The beakless belly-cover was hung around neck by a silver chain. Undercoats were usually made by silk, satin or soft cloth with vivid and bright colors such as pink, peach red, cerise or light green. For different seasons, there were unlined, lined, leather and cotton coats. Sleeves were rather tight in early times, and then gradually loosened, but till the end of Qing, short and small style was once more popular. Waistcoats were mostly worn in cold day in spring and autumn. Cloaks were worn in cold weather when going outside. Cloaks of noble family were usually embroidered by colorful golden threads and decorated with all kinds of jewelries.
