Overview
No garments or images survive that can be firmly tied to a Xia state. The picture comes from earlier and contemporary sites, where China had already domesticated silk — sericulture reaches back into the Neolithic — alongside hemp cloth.
Key garments and style
People wore a two-part costume of upper garment and lower skirt (the yi-shang idea), wrapped and sashed, and jade ornaments already marked rank, as the earlier Liangzhu culture shows.
Transition
The Shang that followed left oracle bones, bronzes and jade figures that give the first firm picture of ranked dress.