In either Chinese or English,there are abundance of dress-culture-related idioms sharing similar folk traditions. This paper initially,based on previous studies,classifies the similarities into four genres,providing each category with its correlative idioms. Meanwhile a metaphor-metonymy blending model is designed,in the hope of cutting across the two languages,to elaborate the motivation of the idioms in both Chinese and English. This may be instructive for ESL learners in terms of their vocabul...