Analysis Eastern and Western Women’s Concept of Female Based on Comparison of Chinese Dudou and Western Corset

Abstract

Compare to outwear, underwear is an item which is more private to women and has more connection with body and sex. That is why underwear usually be given more emotion and meaning. There is also a wonderful culture world behind the underwear. In the western and Chinese underwear aesthetic culture, the silhouette, color and pattern belong to the shallow cultural structure that has symbolic characteristics. And the sense of value and aesthetic hidden behind the interface of these forms belong to the deep cultural structure, also known as the hidden culture. The former is the external manifestation of the latter, and the latter is the inner definition and soul of the former. Through the discussion and research on the superficial cultural structure of underwear, we can understand and distinguish the differences between Chinese and western deep cultural structures, such as value ideal and aesthetic pursuit, and seek the root of them through appearances, so as to find out the deep connotation of the differences between Chinese and western underwear culture and its root.