Outer Clothes Made of Blue Raw Silk

These are clothes worn during ancestral rituals. The king wore a full ceremonial dress with nine embroidered symbols, consisting of a jade scepter, a coronet, a black robe, a wrapping skirt, a wide belt, an inner robe, a back drapery, a round neckband, a ceremonial apron, socks, and shoes. When King Gojong became an emperor, he wore a full ceremonial dress with 12 symbols, and a coronet with 12 strings of beads. The official attire of government officials includes a blue robe, a red skirt, a white inner robe, a ceremonial apron, a round neckband, a wide belt, hanging jade beads and strings, socks, leather shoes, a handheld tablet, and a belt. Depending on the rank, different numbers of lines can be used in a coronet and different designs can be used for the back drapery. In the late Joseon Dynasty, government officials wore a black or purple robe instead of a blue one.