Thai people include White Thai, Black Thai and Red Thai with around 1.5 million people. The traditional female costume is a skirt (long or flowing dress) decorated with many patterns such as the sun, flowers, dragons, ... with sparkling silver buttons. Comes with a belt and a Pieu scarf and some silver jewelry. Men wear simply, without too many motifs. Looking at the outfit is enough to escape the gentle beauty of Thai girls.

The Tay, with more than 1.6 million people, lives mainly in the Northern provinces. Like other ethnic groups, the Tày people pay attention to dress culture, they also have their own traditional costumes. The Tay's outfits are entirely made of self-woven fabric, both men and women wear the same color of melaleuca. And with almost no decorative motifs, the accents are silver jewelry and a belt.

If the traditional clothes of the Tay people are the simplest, the H’Mong people have very sophisticated and colorful costumes. These are the clothes usually made of linen with many outstanding colors, diverse patterns, sophisticated. Often their complete outfits will include collars, pleated skirts, hoods and leggings, with beads or coins attached to enhance their standout as well as show their spiritual will. system.

The outfits of women of the Muong ethnic group are quite simple but equally unique. A plaid shirt (short shirt) with a cut chest and the dress is usually black or light brown, sewn upper body, with high waistband. The skirt top and waistband are finely woven brocade. Muong women often wear this outfit and wear a white or blue scarf, and a green belt. In general, this outfit is not sophisticated but extremely elegant and the beauty that they conceive is shown on it.

Although not too colorful, the traditional costumes of Cham women always have a strange charm. They consider the traditional ao dai to be the most beautiful and sacred clothes. Their outfits are tunic, with no flaps, the lower part is sewn to fit the footsteps, skirts that come with a plain shirt of the same color are only darker or lighter. The highlight on the outfit is a belt with iridescent gold tones, meticulously decorated, tied across the chest and around the waist. Comes with a head scarf that both enhances the charm and can shield the sun.

The traditional costume of the Lu ethnic group has a contemporary fashion look, containing the unique cultural messages of a nation of about 5,558 people. Their attire consists of a broad, long, tasseled head scarf; the shirt is sewn in the shape of a fan; The dress is made up of three different fabrics joined into a tubular shape. To create the charm and softness between the shirt and the skirt, they used a white rough cloth as a belt. In addition, they often wear necklaces as a jewelry accessory.

As a people with a population of more than 3,000 people, the Lo Lo people also have their own traditional costumes. Their costumes are made of self-woven fabric, and women's skirts are made of elaborate ruffles. Men's outfits are simple with traditional cajuput colors.

Not as colorful as the costumes of some ethnic groups, the Nung's outfits are quite simple. The Nung's dress style partly reflects the Nung's culture and customs. Usually made of indigo dyed fabrics and little embroideries. Both men and women wear a wide, ankle-length, wide-legged pants with the contours concentrated on the hem and hem.

Not as colorful as the costumes of some ethnic groups, the Nung's outfits are quite simple. The Nung's dress style partly reflects the Nung's culture and customs. Usually made of indigo dyed fabrics and little embroideries. Both men and women wear a wide, ankle-length, wide-legged pants with the contours concentrated on the hem and hem.Nung men usually wear long and broad sleeves, shirt with waist length, long sleeves, long sleeves, and round collar. Nung women's outfits are richer and more diverse, with both 5-and-4-body tops. The collar is decorated with square motifs, the shape of a canopy, arranged in an adjacent triangle. The most unique are the buttons on the collar, made of silver, with a butterfly on either side and triangular tassels attached. This is a symbol representing the Nung woman's wish for happiness.
It is impossible to mention all the costumes of all ethnic groups, but through here it shows that they all have their very own characteristics, their own identities that are to be preserved.

Thai groups like the Black Thai and the White Thai all have many things in common in everyday clothing, but in them, there are still outstanding identities to distinguish.
A traditional costume for Thai women includes: short shirt (roll back), ao dai (lean and roll), skirt (dull), belt (spread), scarf (pieu), hat (cup), leggings (pepan kha), earrings, necklaces, bracelets and leggings.
Trash (short tight shirt with a row of butterfly buttons) can be sewn with a variety of fabrics with different colors. It is the silver or metal buttons that make it into the typical shirt of Thai women. According to Thai folk beliefs, the two rows of silver buttons on the two back flaps represent the union of men and women, creating the survival of the race.
Thai women also wear two kinds of ao dai, lean and fluffy. Sew the garment made of black indigo fabric, 5-body style, buttoned on the left-hand side, standing neck, bottom of the shirt over the knee. As is customary, newly married women wear and brush on the occasion of weddings and festivals. Thread is outerwear, sewn long, wide, pullovers, with or without arms. Thai women have made this garment from a young age, one for themselves when they get old and the other for their mother-in-law when they return to become a bride. The old people wear their clothes back and forth on normal days, only when they die, they wear the right face.
Skirts (dull) together with ruffled make up the main look of Thai female outfits. Thai women wear two-layer skirts: a white skirt underneath and an indigo skirt over.
Belts (used for plastic) made of blue or purple silk or cotton yarn, keep the waistband of the skirt tightly around the waist.
Talking about Thai women's costumes, it is indispensable for the Pieu scarf. The Pieu scarf is elaborately embellished by Thai girls, with sophisticated lines and patterns bearing the essence of wild mountains and colorful colors, expressing love and feminine strength. In particular, Thai women when going to the festival cannot lack hand-held Pieu scarf. In addition, Thai women like to wear jewelry, such as necklaces, bracelets, earrings, hair pins, leggings and silver buttons.
The difference between the women of the Black Thai and the White Tai is shown in the festivals. On those occasions, White Thai women often wear black ao dai. This type of Ao Dai is straight, without undulating armpits, decorated with fabric "snug" in the middle of the body with a tassel covering from the shoulder to the chest, the armpit is decorated in a two-piece pattern in a triangular layout. . Unmarried women have hair buns behind the nape of the neck, with a husband on top of their head. They have wide brimmed hats. Meanwhile, Thai Den women often wear ao dai with split armpits, pullovers, with a variety of colors and motifs that are more motifs than White Thai.
Compared with women's outfits, Thai men's costumes are simple and contain less nuances, including: tops, pants, belts and towels. Men's shirts have two types: short blouses and long dresses. Short shirt made of indigo fabric, cut chest style, long or short sleeves, round neck. Buttons are made of copper or braided into fabric buttons. The shirt has no pattern decoration, it is only on the formal occasion that Thai men can be seen wearing a new short blouse, with a pair of lead-like highlights at the ends of the line cutting the sides of the shirt.
Although there are different groups of Thai people, in general, their outfits partly show each other's influence. All are very proud of their own identities and constantly preserve, promote and develop the traditional cultural values ​​of the ethnic groups, contributing to building an advanced Vietnamese culture imbued with national identity.