Many people in the west has stereotypes of Chinese’s traditional clothing to be the shape-wise uncomplimentary, clunky clothing of the Qing dynasty, with the comical petite Manchurian hats and pigtails.

This is because after when the Manchurians came to occupy China, they imposed their clothing on the Hans.

The real traditional Han’s clothing is not really known by people of many other nations. Many people from other nations also don’t know that the aristocracy adopted Chinese-style court robe during the Nara period (710-794), chiefly the long gown; in Japanese hands this turned into the kimono, which perpetuates peculiarly the women's fashion of Tang dynasty China.

In comparison to what most people in the globe believe traditional Chinese clothing to be (QiPao, queues, Manchurian style clothing), Hanfu is by far prettier and more elegant, and since that it symbolizes the large majority of the Chinese people (Hans) for the large majority of their history, I think it should be brought back for restoring the national conventional attire for Chinese females in the future.