A woman's clothes are not noble but clean, not beautiful but elegant, not expensive and commensurate with the family, but expensive and suitable for appearance. The clothes embroidered by Qiluo Wen are covered with dirt and dust, but they are not as delicious as the cloth clothes, and the so-called noble and clean is not expensive and fine. The color of red and purple is dark and bright, and it is not as good as the light, and the so-called noble and elegant is not expensive. The wife of the noble, should be clothed in literary style, a frugal home, when the clothes are plain, the so-called commensurate with people. However, man has the face of generation, the face has matching clothes, and the clothes have matching colors, all of which are certain and immovable. Try to take fresh clothes today, so that several people have taken it, there must be one or two in the look, one or two do not look at the person, with its complexion and the color of the clothes are commensurate and disproportionate, non-clothes have public and private backs in the meantime. So that the complexion of the noble woman's face is not suitable for literary style and should be plain, and if you want to go to the vegetarian and be literary, how much is it enmity with the face? Therefore, it is said that it is not expensive and commensurate with home, but expensive and face. About the whitest and most tender complexion, and the lightest body, it is inappropriate. The light color shows its lightness, and the dark color shows its lightness; The essence of the clothes is delicate, and the coarse clothes are more delicate. This is not a national color, and it is not far from Yiguang and Wang Yan, but how many people are there in the world? Those who are slightly closer to the medium material, that is, when the phase is tailor-made, it is not allowed to mix the hue. The method of tailoring is varied, and it should not be discussed as a glue column, but it is necessary to insist on it, and it is just from its nearness. Those with a pale face can be dark or light; Those who are close to black should not be shallow but deep, and shallow will show their blackness. If the skin is close to greasy, the clothes can be fine or coarse; If it is close to rough, it should not be fine and should be coarse, and fine will be more rough (p.186-187）。
Li Yu, "Idle Love and Occasional Mail", Zhongzhou Ancient Books Publishing House, 2013