Red Guard Uniform/Normal Everyday Wear

The uniform worn by the Red Guard.

During the Cultural Revolution, the people had to wear either the uniform shown on the left or they had to wear khaki clothing in order to show that they were a revolutionary. Any old form of clothing from before the Revolution was thought to be bourgeois. Anyone who wore such clothing as pronounced to be bourgeois were punished and put through hardship. Ji-Li made to wear such clothing because she lived through the Revolution and so did her family.