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Chima, Unfolded in Layers
Korean original:
치마, 겹 위에 펼쳐진
The eighth exhibition in Arumjigi's Clothing series turns to the chima, the Korean skirt. Its 21 pieces run from felt skirts of the Three Kingdoms period, an okchung skirt decorated with jewel-beetle wings and embroidered Joseon skirts to new interpretations by the designers LEJE, JADEN CHO and JiyongKim; the historical skirts were reconstructed from old texts and surviving pieces. Closed on Mondays.
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- Dates
- Aug 27 – Nov 15, 2026
- Venue
- Arumjigi (아름지기) · Seochon
- Address
- 서울특별시 종로구 효자로 17Open in Naver MapOpen in Google Maps
Visit planning
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Credits
- Organized by
- Arumjigi
- Planning
- 김승현, 정소영, 강정서
- Exhibition design
- 임태희디자인스튜디오
Knowledge cards
Hanbok한복Korean traditional dress, made up of a jacket (jeogori), trousers (baji), a skirt (chima), and an overcoat (po).Read moreClose
01About
The basic hanbok is a jacket with trousers or a skirt, with a coat worn over them; the arrangement already appears in Goguryeo tomb murals and has changed little over a long time. What changes are the details: the length of the jacket, the width of the sleeves, the collar and the ties. Children's clothes often have sleeves pieced from brightly striped cloth, called saekdong, used since the Goryeo period. On a child's first birthday (dol), the child is dressed in a full set of ornate hanbok, with a first-birthday sash (doltti) around the chest and a pouch at the waist. As Western dress spread in modern times, hanbok became clothing for holidays and ceremonies, and many families kept first-birthday clothes, wedding garments, and ornaments through the generations.
02In the gallery
Compare adults' and children's clothes: the colors of the sleeves, the collar and where the ties fall, and the patterns sewn on.
Wall label terms in Korean
- 저고리
- Jeogori
- 포
- Po (overcoat)
- 색동
- Saekdong
- 돌
- Dol (first birthday)
03Notes
The basic set of hanbok has hardly changed; what changes is the jacket's length, the sleeves, the collar, and the ties.
This time, at Chima, Unfolded in Layers —
From the sleeves, collar, and patterns, who do you think it was made for, and for what day?