Việt phục

Etymology
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Noun

 * 1)  Vietnamese "traditional clothings"

Usage notes
This is a neologism coined recently to refer to "Vietnamese traditional clothings", modelled after terms from other Sinosphere languages like, ,. Historically, it was never in use in actual Vietnamese texts prior to, during, and for some time after, the colonial period.

Its usage is still limited to mostly Sinologist circles.

During the colonial period, Vietnamese clothings were simply expressed with phrases like "" (Việt Nam phong tục, 1915), "" (Cành hoa điểm tuyết, 1921), "" (Chúa tàu Kim Quy, 1923). Slightly later, the term started to be used to refer to traditional clothings (Số đỏ, 1938; Đoạn tình, 1940).

(attested in an article in 1935, pg. 3, quốc phục is also attested here) is the modern term in actual colloquial usage for Vietnamese-styled clothings.