The emergence of early clothing, its initial role is the protection function, that is, the protection of the body, the defense of external invasion. With the development of society, clothing culture has been generated due to social, political, cultural, economic and religious influences. It can be said that clothing is a mirror of the times and a symbol of history. It is a figurative language and a symbol system of people's spiritual world. It is a cultural phenomenon that contains rich and changeable flows. Costume culture It refers to the total of all things related to clothing and human's related behaviors and spiritual activities, which are made up of clothing material culture, clothing behavior culture, clothing system culture and clothing mental culture.

The material culture of clothing refers to all kinds of costumes that are presented in front of people in the form of material. It is a subsystem of clothing culture. It is related to many fields of science and technology, such as chemical industry, textile, printing and dyeing, etc., which is loaded with various social and cultural factors such as economy, politics, ethics, art and religion.

The behavior culture of clothing refers to the habits and behaviors of members of society in choosing and wearing clothes. People in different regions and different groups have different habits of dressing. The institutional culture of clothing refers to various tangible and intangible norms that restrict and guide clothing processing, production, operation, sale and consumption. Such as processing management system, marketing mode, fashion display, fashion show, etc.

Clothing's mental culture refers to production and operation. Consumer In the psychological and intelligent state of production, operation and consumption, all the concepts, thoughts, experiences, knowledge, plans, such as the values of clothing of the general people, the consumption concept, the ideas and Strategies of the designers of the designers, are all clothing mental culture.

　　 Fashion Show Clothing is on display, but the clothing culture on display is deep. Famous brand clothing products are the crystallization of new and high technology and clothing culture, and are the high-level embodiment of clothing culture. CAD and CAM can be imported from foreign countries, but clothing behavior culture and mental culture should be built on the improvement of the cultural quality of the whole people. The means must also rely on advanced system culture such as clothing exhibition. The development of material civilization in cities lays the foundation for the development of clothing material culture and behavior culture. The progress of urban spiritual civilization lays the foundation for the systematic culture of the city's clothing and the progress of mental culture. At the same time, the development of clothing and clothing culture has stimulated the design, production and consumption of clothing, and has brought a new step to it.

The four cultural subsystems are interdependent, interacting and transforming each other. The study and analysis of their relationship will help to grasp the overall culture of clothing and help to further understand the clothing exhibition industry.