Editing Huế (provincial city) (section)

=== Clothing ===
[[File:Festival Huế 2008-3.JPG|thumb|Festival in Huế]]
The design of the modern-day ''[[áo dài]]'', a Vietnamese [[national costume]], developed from the costumes worn by civilians in [[Đàng Trong]] in the 18th century after the costume reform of lord [[Nguyễn Phúc Khoát]]. A court historian of the time described the rules of dress as follows:

{{Blockquote|Thường phục thì đàn ông, đàn bà dùng áo cổ đứng ngắn tay, cửa ống tay rộng hoặc hẹp tùy tiện. Áo thì hai bên nách trở xuống phải khâu kín liền, không được xẻ mở. Duy đàn ông không muốn mặc áo cổ tròn ống tay hẹp cho tiện khi làm việc thì được phép.<br /><br />Outside court, men and women wear gowns with straight collars and short sleeves. The sleeves are large or small depending on the weather. There are seams on both sides running down from the sleeve, so the gown is not open anywhere. Men may wear a round collar and a short sleeve for more convenience.|''[[Đại Nam thực lục]]''<ref group=nb>''[[Đại Nam thực lục]]''</ref>}}

This outfit evolved into the ''[[áo ngũ thân]]'', a type of five-part costume popular in Vietnam in the 19th and early 20th centuries. Inspired by Paris fashions, Nguyễn Cát Tường and other artists associated with [[Hanoi University]] redesigned the ''[[ngũ thân]]'' to create the modern ''áo dài'' in the 1920s and 1930s.<ref name="Ellis">{{citation | last = Ellis | first = Claire | title = Ao Dai: The National Costume | newspaper = Things Asian | year = 1996 | url = http://www.thingsasian.com/stories-photos/1083 | access-date = 2 July 2008 | url-status = dead | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20080705105011/http://www.thingsasian.com/stories-photos/1083 | archive-date = 5 July 2008}}</ref> While the ''áo dài'' and ''[[nón lá]]'' are generally seen as a symbol of Vietnam as a whole, the combination is seen by Vietnamese as being particularly evocative of Hue. Violet-coloured ''áo dài'' are especially common in Huế, the color having a special connection to the city's heritage as a former capital.<ref>{{cite news|last=Bửu|first=Ý|title=Xứ Huế Người Huế|url=http://tuoitre.vn/Van-hoa-Giai-tri/38127/Xu-Hue-nguoi-Hue.html|access-date=29 April 2011|newspaper=Tuổi Trẻ|date=19 June 2004}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=http://english.vietnamnet.vn/news/2004/06/162188/ |title=Ao dai – Hue's piquancy |access-date=1 June 2011 |date=18 June 2004 |newspaper=VietnamNet |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110204025846/http://english.vietnamnet.vn/news/2004/06/162188/ |archive-date=4 February 2011}}</ref>
<!-- One typical example of the spread of royal character has to do with the charming traditional dress of Vietnamese women – the ao dai. It is said that back in the 1970s, ao dai, which, previously, used to be worn daily by the royal family members and yet only on special occasions by ordinary people, became an everyday outfit of almost all Hue women, from office workers and school girls to sellers in markets, even street vendors.<ref>{{cite news|last=Bửu|first=Ý|title=Xứ Huế Người Huế|url=http://tuoitre.vn/Van-hoa-Giai-tri/38127/Xu-Hue-nguoi-Hue.html|access-date=29 April 2011|newspaper=Tuoi Tre|date=19 June 2004}}</ref> Given the subtlety and delicacy of the ao dai, the people who wear it frequently have been seen to invariably develop the same characteristics. This is also one of the reasons why until now, the image of an innocent-looking Hue girl in her charming ao dai has become a unanimous human symbol of Hue. -->