Chinese history represents a traditional costume culture that provides a rich source of inspiration for fashion students. This article references typical Tibetan clothing as an example of Chinese traditional costume and proposes a virtual reality interactive teaching mode for use in fashion design education. This mode enables fashion students to understand in greater depth the structural features of traditional costumes through virtual garments and also provides self-learning platforms and opportunities for other non-fashion students. Virtual reality interactive teaching can fully demonstrate the characteristics of traditional Chinese clothing, increasing access to garment knowledge that is not readily available outside museum collections. These processes include using two-dimensional (2D) clothing CAD software to display the traditional clothing structure, using virtual reality technology for making three-dimensional (3D) clothing models and using the Unity 3D game development platform for interactivity. This virtual reality interactive teaching approach expands upon traditional teaching methods for fashion design and the study of traditional costume for design development. This article presents this virtual method for fashion education to enable increased access to traditional costume knowledge.
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