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Every year the Chinese department students put on a performance for the Mid-Autumn Festival. This year we performed some poems, songs, and traditional music (you can see my friend holding a xiao in the background), and told the story of Chang'e and Houyi.

Based on my quick research, 圍件 seems to refer to a few things. Though sometimes it translates to "accessory", in this case I think it refers to the close-fitting clothing comparable to modern-day underwear.

I'm sorry to hear that's the case. It took me a long time to build up the confidence and find the community where I can wear hanfu, but I promise it's worth it. Keep looking!! The right people are out there 🙂

Than you! and yes, it is yuanlingpao, coupled with a ming standing collar shirt 立領對襟

(prefacing this by saying I'm a man who does hanfu in relatively queer spaces)
a lot of guys are definitely turned away from hanfu because the western gaze tends to read skirts or nice fabrics as feminine. combine that with the fact that east asian men are already seen by the west as inherently less masculine than their non-asian counterparts, and you find yourself in a pretty tricky position in a world that looks down on feminine men. basically the west sees chinese fashion/ppl as feminine and then punishes them for it, so many men (of any race) want to avoid that.
then there's also the commercial aspect to the whole thing. even though some of the pioneers of the hanfu movement were men, the market is mainly targeted towards women. women are more expected to buy nice clothing and "dress up", and to buy the gufeng accessories and makeup products that come out alongside the clothing.
plus, there are more cases of women wearing masculine hanfu than there are of the inverse. so if you target male audiences, you can only really sell masculine hanfu. but if you target female audiences, you can sell twice the type of product.

beautiful!!

knots and paper cutting are relatively cost-effective, and both crafts have a lot of regional variations. I'm going to try making 綬帶 at some point

this is hanyuansu (hanfu-inspired clothing). it looks very yuan-inspired with the bijia (vest), which originated from mongol fashion.

there are several differences! one of the biggest giveaways is the shoulders - japanese clothing generally has a seam along the shoulders, like a western t-shirt, but the seam on hanfu sleeves is usually farther down the bicep. based on that (and other factors), this image is probably hanfu

Hm. Not sure if it's just me or if the photos didn't upload properly. I can try to repost if that's the case.