The costumes of the Mulao nationality have their own characteristics, but in some respects, they are basically the same as those of the nearby Han nationality and Zhuang nationality because of their long-term coexistence and mutual influence. Mulao costumes retain the characteristics of ancient courtiers 60 or 70 years ago. For example, women's blouses are very short, only to the waist, and all the sleeves are embroidered with scales. Wearing a pleated skirt and hooked shoes. Unmarried women wear long braids, while married women wear earrings, bracelets, rings and other jewelry. Men wear double-breasted clothes and both men and women cover their heads with long handkerchiefs. Mulao's clothes are generally dark blue. In the past, most of them were self-spinning, self-weaving, self-dyeing and self-sewing. In modern times, after modification, it is not much different from the clothes of the local Han and Zhuang nationalities. Men wear dark double-breasted jackets, trousers, cloth shoes, waist belts, and plaid cloth wrapped in black cloth, with their heads hanging over their shoulders. There are silver earrings, bracelets, rings and so on.

Mulao people advocate cyan, and their clothes are unpretentious. Women usually wear coats and trousers. Girls braid their hair in a bun after they get married. The old woman likes to wrap her head in green cloth and tie an apron embroidered with exquisite patterns around her waist. Men wear double-breasted jackets, trousers and hexagonal blue cloth hats. Old people wear pipa robes and hard-shell flat-topped bowl hats. Wear sandals or cloth shoes. Mulao people's clothing fabrics are all home textile fabrics dyed with indigo, which are self-spun, self-woven and self-dyed, and are regarded as precious fabrics. Dyeing methods are different. Put the homespun about two feet long into the indigo vat, dye it repeatedly to make the cyan uniform, and then coat it with rice soup, yam, Niu Pijiao paste, etc. After drying, roll it with a stone hammer or beat it with a wooden stick. The cloth made by this method is bright, beautiful and durable.