Till the middle term of 1980s, there were more and more clothes styles while the popularity circle became shorter and shorter. New styles and materials were kept being introduced to the market. As for upper outer garments, there were all kinds of T-shirts, jackets of mixing color, checkered shirts and cotton pullovers. Wearing suits and ties became social dresses for formal occasions, and accepted by most of the white collars. Under clothes included pailform trousers, elastic trousers, radish trousers, skirt trousers, 70% trousers, trousers skirts, pleated skirts, eight-piece skirts, western suits skirts, midis and sun skirts. The style changed constantly. By the time when the mini skirt that was born in the western world in 1960s was once again popular in 1980s, China has kept pace with the world fashion.
At the beginning of 1990s, the previous dressing order was broken. The sweaters worn inside the jacket in the past entered all kinds of formal occasions as a single dress without going with outer jackets because of their rather loose style. Tile dressing style of "wearing underwear outside" was not considered as strange any more after two or three years. In the past, if wearing a jacket outside, the sweater or T-shirts inside should be shorter than the jacket. But young people suddenly found that it was hard to find bigger jackets than their loose sweaters, so they covered small jackets outside the long sweaters. The short-sleeve sweaters worn in summer time could also be worn outside the long-sleeve shirts. Very soon, clothes industry began to launch sets of unconventional suits, such as a long jacket and long shirt going with a little waistcoat higher than waist, or the successive style sleeves with outer sleeves shorter than the underclothes sleeves.
During that period of time, sun skirts going with high boots style black satin saddle shoes appeared in Paris garments stage, in the past, sun skirts with tight and small upper skirt part and two thin shoulder straps were worn in beach. But when it appeared in fashion stage, the skirt body had a bigger spread that reached the ankles. Almost at the same time, global fashion experienced first hand-covering clothes, which lengthened sleeves to cover the hands, then tile waist-exposing clothes or even navel-exposing clothes, which have short and small upper clothes and a section of skin exposed. This kind of clothes was once popular in China, but the style was not as bold as the neighboring Japan. The navel- exposing clothes popular in Japan even led to a new content of body beautification- to beautify the navel. Clothes that expose part of skin inspired by waist- exposing or navel-exposing clothes however became popular in China. A subtle trend was to cover parts that were exposed before such as hands and shanks and expose parts that were covered before such as the waist and navel. The sandal shoes without back support were once the rage. Women wore the sandal shoes barefoot, painted nail polish, glued decorative plastic pieces or wore toe rings. Designers even designed the transparent handbag or watches that expose mechanism in order to show the open concept of modern people.
