先秦时期是中国古代服饰产生发展的重要时期,服装形制从初期简单的遮身蔽体,逐渐发展完备。夏商时期,各阶层服装有区别但服制差别不大,都为窄袖短衣;西周晚期,奴隶主阶级服装袖部变宽,衣渐长,服制开始分化;春秋战国时期,服制形成窄袖短衣和长衣大袖这两大类型,并且各阶层服制固定下来,成为人们的身份标志,服制阶级性形成。
The pre-Qin period is an important time in and developed, the clothes system gradually developed from complete in the late time. In Xia and Shang periods, the class, the clothes was all narrow sleeve and short clothes. which Chinese ancient clothes system had only covering people' body in preliminary clothes system had only little difference emceed stage to in every In the late period of Western Zhou Dynasty, the clothes system began to divide, the sleeve became wide and clothes became long to the slave owner class. In the Spring and Autumn period, the clothes system divided into two kinds: narrow sleeve and short clothes, wide sleeve and long clothes, the clothes system of every class was fixed, clothes became the identification and the clothes system came into being.