Waistband for civil service clothing

1800

Belt, is worn with the formal dress of civil servants. Belts and waist cords are used to close trousers and can also be used to hang accessories such as tobacco pouches, decorative knives and spectacle cases. They vary in shape from thin cord to wider belt and can have different colors. In addition to buttons, some belts can be fastened with a locking mechanism.Belts and waist cords are used to close up the trousers but may also function to suspend accessories such as tobacco bags, decorative knives and glasses cases from. Their shape and color varies from thin cords to broader belt-types that may be tied or sometimes have a metal closing mechanism.\nThis is a gentleman's robe string, particularly a thread string for a male coat such as top'o, chŏnbok. It is called sultti. The colour of sultti is different according to ranks. This blue string is for lower officials called tanghagwan. Violet ones are for upper officials. However, the colours were not rigidly adhered to so a variety of colours were used. The ordinary people wore a black string and mourners wore a white one.\nKoreans used tie-strings and belts or bands to keep their garments in place. Numerous styles of outer coats called durumagi such as ui, dopo, and chollik worn by the literati were fastened with tie-strings at the chest. Noticeably after the reforms of 1894, they were unified in the narrower-sleeved durumagi with goreum which tied at the right side of the chest, instead of the chest-band.