Đông Sơn Culture was the peak of the Bronze Age and the early Iron Age in Việt , dating back from the fourth-the third centuries BC to the second-the third centuries.

The archaeological material about Đông Sơn Culture that has been collected so far is mainly bronze artifacts (production tools, weapons, utensils, works of art including Đông Sơn bronze drums – the most typical artefacts) and ancient documents, legends, and annals. They help us to understand about various aspects of the society in the period of Đông Sơn Culture, which also include the people’s costumes, dressing, hair, and jewellry.

According to statues of figures cast as decorations on hilts of daggers or swords and on handles of ladles as well as make-up figures engraved on the surface and the body of bronze drums or bronze jars, we could preliminarily identify the dressing of people in the period of Đông Sơn Culture. The costume included hat, scarf, clothes, necklaces, bracelets, anklets, and all kinds of earrings.

Đông Sơn people’s apparel was generally neat and simple. Men often wore loincloths, stayed bare to the waist, and went barefoot. Women wore brassières and skirts. Apart from daily clothing, Đông Sơn people also created costumes for festivals, which were more beautiful and more sophisticated such as different kinds of gowns, skirts made from multicoloured bird feathers, or long loincloths embroidered with beautiful and vivid motifs. Also, men held some kinds of weapons as adornment such as javelins and spears that the handles were decorated with fringes.

Costumes for warriors and military leaders in this period have been found only in the traces of fabric adhered to bronze breastplates discovered in Thiệu Dương ancient tomb.

Jewellery is considered a part of the costume. Đông Sơn people wore jewellry at their ears and around their neck, hands, and feet. However, the most common ornaments were various types of stone earrings and  brass bracelets. In that period, wearing jewellry was not only for beauty but also to assert social status, power, and wealth.

Costumes in the period of Đông Sơn Culture have still been so far retained in the apparel of some ethnic minorities in the provinces of Northern and Central Việt .