The Tibetan dress is characterized by long sleeves, large lapels, right overlapping, long skirts, long boots, braided hair, and gold, silver, beads and jade ornaments.

The Tibetan people generally wear long robes and belts regardless of gender. Men pleat the back of their robes, and women pleat the left and right sides of their robes. There are also not divided into men and women as in the robe on both sides of the hem pleated attire habits. But in the past, the dress of the officials, to the official position of the high and low has a special symbolic significance. There were also various types of costumes for the nobles, commoners and civilians, such as the details and advantages and disadvantages.

The formation of Tibetan clothing customs with the Tibetan people living on the Tibetan Plateau, the natural environment and climatic conditions of production, lifestyle has an inextricable relationship, reflecting the collective wisdom of the nation, contains the national aesthetic consciousness and aesthetic taste. Tibetan clothing, eye ornaments in its style, structure formation and development process, y affected by the natural conditions, labor production and cultural exchanges.

Improved Tibetan clothing:

There was a period in the early 1990s when Lhasa set off a wave of "improved Tibetan clothing", and set up a "T-shaped platform" to display all of them were re-designed Tibetan dresses. Designed Tibetan dress, the design is very modern sense of rhythm, such as men's Tibetan robes, the designer cut the robe into two halves, to wear clothes, and then set on the following half, the overall effect is still a robe look.