As an important part making up of traditional culture of nationality, ethnic dress is one of ways of non-language culture
communication, and it plays an important role in preservation and inheritances of traditional culture. There is an extremely complex and remarkable in difference geographical environment, a lot of nationalities and a variety of culture in Yunnan. As a result, the various landscape of ethnic dress in Yunnan are formed.
First of all, from the view of the culture ecology, this paper analyses the interrelation between the ethnic dress and the geographical environment. The geographical environment has not only influence on the material, style, craftwork, wear manner and functions of ethnic dress, but also influence on the regional types and the spacial patterns of ethnic dress. Secondly, this paper, employed the correlation theories and the methods of cultural landscape regionalization, divides ethnic dress landscapes of Yunnan into three landscape regions-the northwest region, the middle and east region, the south west region; and three regional types-the first is ethnic dress in cold region, the second is ethnic dress in warm region and the third is ethnic dress in hard region. And then, the basic characteristics of three area types of ethnic dress landscape are expounded as well as its portrait development in history and variation in space. Finally, based on the cognizance of the cultural value and the economic value of ethnic dress, from the region exploitation, the author considers that ethnic dress is a kind of precious resources as well as one of the most attractive tourism landscapes. Ethnic dress embodies directly the characteristics, the beautiful consciousness and the decorative art of ethnic group, which ought to be paid enough attention to and be taken good care of in exploitation and utilization of traditional culture resources of nationalities.